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Fernanda A. Castellón; Ana Dueñas; Paul Luelmo – Grantee Submission, 2025
The purpose of this study was to explore and document the migratory motivations and reasonings of Mexican mothers of autistic children pursuing autism services in the United States. The study was guided by the overarching research question, "What are the experiences of mothers living in the U.S./Mexico border while seeking services for their…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Mother Attitudes, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parent Child Relationship
Fernanda A Castellón; Ana Dueñas; Paul Luelmo – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
The purpose of this study was to explore and document the migratory motivations and reasonings of Mexican mothers of autistic children pursuing autism services in the United States. The study was guided by the overarching research question, "What are the experiences of mothers living in the U.S./Mexico border while seeking services for their…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Mother Attitudes, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parent Child Relationship
Sepúlveda, Enrique, III – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
This article examines the deployment of border conocimiento and the subsequent cultural production of third spaces for transnational Mexican youth by Chicano educators who I call "border brokers" at a northern California high school. It examines the micro-level insurgent actions on the part of a small group of educators at Bosque High to…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Mexicans, Epistemology, Ethnography
Christiansen, M. Sidury; Trejo Guzmán, Nelly Paulina; Mora-Pablo, Irasema – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
Return migration from the United States to Mexico has been increasing in the last decade. Research reports that many returnees, who are English dominant, drop out of school to look for work in call centers and transnational companies (Anderson, 2015). Others pursue higher education in English-based programs such as those for becoming English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Minor, Denise – Hispania, 2016
This study examines the impact that membership in a Spanish language theater and poetry troupe had upon a group of Mexican and Chicano university students in terms of the development of academic identities, feelings of belonging, connections with friends and family, and other factors that correlate with academic perseverance. Also examined was the…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Mexicans, College Students, Identification (Psychology)
Kasun, G. Sue – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Transnational Mexican-origin youth comprise a large and increasing number of students in U.S. schools, yet their teachers have often misunderstood their backgrounds and the conditions related to their transnational movement over borders. With such a large number of immigrant/transnational youth in the U.S. of Mexican origin, it…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Family Relationship
Mora, Alberto; Trejo, Paulina; Roux, Ruth – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
This comparative study examines the learning trajectories of two groups of Mexican novice language teachers, three locally raised and educated ones and three repatriates from the USA. The study makes use of a combination of retrospective life-history research and the analysis of academic documents to look at the interrelationship between teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning
Goble, Ryan A. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This article extends two conversations in the heritage language (HL) scholarship: 1) the need to strengthen the linguistic self-confidence among receptive bilinguals (who are typically associated with beginning-level HL students); 2) the need for more critical explorations of receptive bilinguals' self-reported, albeit minimal, spoken Spanish in…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, Receptive Language, Self Esteem
McClure, Greg; Fitts, Shanan – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
In this paper, we share the testimonio of Santana, an immigrant from rural México, who explained the ways that she navigates her life and raises her children as a Latina immigrant woman here in the southeastern United States. Our inquiry is guided by analysis of ethnographic interviews conducted with Santana over a period of three years. We argue…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Females, Personal Narratives, Ethnography
Yau, Jenny; Watkins, Rocio – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2018
This qualitative study explored the intertwining relationships among the concepts of parental autonomy support, parental control, and cultural values for Mexican American families. The study was guided by the following questions: (1) What elements of parental autonomy support are identified in Mexican American parents' involvement in their…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Mothers, Personal Autonomy, Social Values
Wheeler, Lorey A.; Zeiders, Katharine H.; Updegraff, Kimberly A.; Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J.; Rodríguez de Jesús, Sue A.; Perez-Brena, Norma J. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Engagement in risk behavior has implications for individuals' academic achievement, health, and well-being, yet there is a paucity of developmental research on the role of culturally relevant strengths in individual and family differences in risk behavior involvement among ethnic minority youth. In this study, we used a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Mexican Americans, Risk
Juarez, Sergio F. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In an increasingly hostile political and social climate undocumented students in the United States continue to struggle to find space for themselves within universities. This research project undertakes a goal of illuminating how undocumented students make sense of their experiences on university campuses despite facing difficult climates at their…
Descriptors: College Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Resilience (Psychology), Student Experience
Halvorsen, Anne-Lise; Harris, Lauren McArthur; Aponte Martinez, Gerardo; Frasier, Amanda Slaten – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
This mixed methods study explores how high school students (N = 35) enrolled in a US charter school with a high Latino/a population perform on and perceive (in terms of interest and relevance) document-based type historical reasoning tasks: one about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s and the other about the experiences of Mexicans and Mexican Americans…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, High School Students, Charter Schools, United States History
Albarracin, Julia; Cabedo-Timmons, Guadalupe; Delany-Barmann, Gloria – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2019
This article investigated the intrinsic, extrinsic, and integrative orientations shaping reading and speaking English skills among adult Mexican immigrants in two gateway communities in Illinois. Intrinsic orientations refer to reasons for second language (L2) learning derived from one's inherent pleasure and interest in the activity. Extrinsic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigrants, Mexican Americans
Christiansen, M. Sidury – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article examines Facebook conversations between members of a transnational social network of US- and Mexico-born English/Spanish bilinguals. Extending Bourdieu's theory of language and symbolic power, the article uses the framework of language ideologies to explore how members establish identity and membership differently depending on whether…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Bilingualism, Spanish