This study explores the process of participation of Latino immigrant parents in the schooling of their children, as it takes place in various schools and communities in the Southwest. It examines the practices and motivations that support the parents' participation and their advocacy to improve their children's school experience. It chronicles the…

This study examines the emerging process of participation and activism of Mexican and Mexican American migrant farmworkers in the schooling of their children through their narratives and oral histories, contextualized in selected schools and rural communities of Southern California. Equitable and participatory collaborations between migrant…

Children from migrant agricultural families have some of the lowest socioeconomic and educational indicators in the American Southwest, and migrant parents are often characterized by school personnel as "hard to reach" and uninvolved in their children's education. This study analyzes the process of school participation among migrant…