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Nuñez, Idalia; Urrieta, Luis, Jr. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
This article examines the cultural production of three "transfronterizo" children who daily, physically cross a U.S.-Mexico international bridge. Drawing on theories of identity, border inspections, literacy, and language, the findings reveal that "transfronterizo" children developed "literacies of surveillance," or…
Descriptors: Children, Multiple Literacies, Migration Patterns, Cultural Context
Sandra Spirovska – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I explore how international migration and environmental pollution shape human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes.The first chapter examines how college enrollment and major choice decisions of young adults in migrant-sending countries are affected by the removal of international migration barriers. My…
Descriptors: Migration, Migration Patterns, Pollution, Human Capital
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Broxner, Colette I. Despagne – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The Mexican Nation State has been created upon the Doctrine of Mestizaje which includes one single language, Spanish, and one single identity, the mestizo. This doctrine hides social practices of discrimination (Gómez Izquierdo, 2008). Although multiculturalism in Mexico recognizes diversity and difference, it still perceives them as problems to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Children, Migration Patterns
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Paat, Yok-Fong; Pellebon, Dwain – Child & Youth Services, 2012
The issue of immigration is especially controversial in the United States as immigrants today have not only increased in number but constitute a more heterogeneous population. Unlike the earlier waves of immigrants, which were predominantly of European origin, the post-1965 migration trend from Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean has…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Migration Patterns
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Crivello, Gina – Journal of Youth Studies, 2011
The past few decades have witnessed international pressure to get more children in the world educated, for longer. The view that school education is core to definitions of good childhoods and successful youth transitions is increasingly widespread, globally and locally. However, structural inequalities persist and migration for education has…
Descriptors: Poverty, Young Adults, Academic Aspiration, Foreign Countries
Rendall, Michael S.; Torr, Berna M. – RAND Corporation, 2007
Second-generation immigrants are typically analyzed under the assumption that, having been born in the United States, they grew up in the United States. We challenge this assumption by investigating the prevalence and patterns of second-generation Mexican-American children's migration to and return from Mexico during childhood, and consider the…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Children, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Saini, Asha; Vakil, Shernavaz – Childhood Education, 2002
Details causes of migration in India and situations children find themselves in, and how these situations complicate the provision of education. Examines the impact on children's physical, psychosocial, and intellectual growth, and evaluates intervention measures, including a program for street children. Provides recommendations for addressing…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Migrant Children, Migrant Education
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Coldrey, Barry M. – Children & Society, 1999
Explores the first phase of juvenile emigration from Britain to the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries. Finds eerie parallels with the last phase of this British social policy in the 1960s as has been discussed in the media during recent years. (SD)
Descriptors: Children, Colonial History (United States), Economically Disadvantaged, European History