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Abo-Zena, Mona M. – Teacher Educator, 2018
Despite many welcoming individuals and communities, the hegemonic narrative regarding immigrant origin families suggests that hard work may not be enough to overcome the economic, social, and political walls within and encompassing the United States. The increasingly diverse stories of immigrant families are often met with undifferentiated…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Preservice Teacher Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Immigrants
Adelman, Howard S.; Taylor, Linda – Education Sciences, 2015
A great deal has been written about immigrant children and youth. Drawing on work done in the USA, this paper focuses on implications for school improvement policy and practice. Discussed are (1) the increasing influx of immigrants into schools, (2) different reasons families migrate, (3) concerns that arise related to immigrant students, (4)…
Descriptors: Migrant Children, Immigrants, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
Stewart, Mary Amanda – English Journal, 2012
Twenty percent of all youth in America's schools are children of immigrants, making them first- or second-generation immigrant students. Addressing these students' literacy needs with relevant curriculum paves the way for them to experience meaningful learning. Literacy scholarship also points to the specific literacy needs of adolescent girls and…
Descriptors: Females, Immigrants, Adolescent Literature, Culturally Relevant Education
Harvard Educational Review, 2011
This article presents the author's personal narrative as an immigrant from Sierra Leone who has undergone so many challenges in life and ended up turning all these obstacles into opportunities. In this article, the author describes his life growing up in Sierra Leone, his first experience of the horrors of war, his life as a student, and his dream…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Phenomenology, Career Development
Gutierrez, M. – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
In this article, the author describes his life experiences and how difficult it was for him as a Mexican immigrant living in the United States. His life changed when he moved to America, but his character changed when he started middle school. He had been constantly insulted by his classmates, and at the time he wanted to get revenge. The kids he…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phenomenology, Personal Narratives, Migrant Problems
Ibrahim, Farah A.; Dykeman, Cass – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2011
In this article, the authors identify the cultural and spiritual assessments needed to conduct counseling with Muslim Americans and Muslim immigrants to the United States. Assessment processes are outlined that include cultural identity (which subsumes several variables); worldview; spiritual assessment along with acculturation level and migration…
Descriptors: Muslims, Acculturation, Immigrants, World Views
Hamann, Edmund T.; Reeves, Jenelle – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
Extant cultural models articulated in "Flyover Country" print media responses to ICE workplace raids showed a welcome of sorts of Latino newcomers. These models suggest a place for Latino students at school and more broadly for Latino children and parents in these communities. Thus, they index an unwillingness to see Latino newcomers in…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Immigrants, Models, Textbook Bias
Jackson, Camille – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
Third-grader Jaime of Denver, Colorado, was having a hard time concentrating in school. The son of Mexican immigrants, he had learned to speak English perfectly in his dual-language public school, but reading and writing was another story. When her mother, Xochitl Rico, knew about Cesar Chavez Academy, a new tuition-free charter school where the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Migrant Children, Migrant Education, Immigrants
Pujolar, Joan – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010
Most analyses of the sociolinguistic aspects of immigration focus on contexts where a single language is official and widely used. In bilingual Catalonia, newly arriving immigrants find themselves in a situation where the administration seeks to treat Catalan as a fully functional public language while large sectors of the local population still…
Descriptors: Language Role, Social Differences, Intergroup Relations, Immigrants
Stevens, Lisa Patel – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2009
From a critical language perspective, the main issues facing education of immigrant populations are the ways in which these populations are segregated as the Other and how educational practices often work to perpetuate a fringe status. In this paper, I draw upon both discursive perspectives on policymaking and pedagogical practices to address the…
Descriptors: Language Research, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Pathology

de Albuquerque, Klaus; McElroy, Jerome L. – International Migration Review, 1982
Examines the demographic impact, underlying socioeconomic forces, and the legal framework of British West Indian migration to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Observes that West Indian assimilation has only been partial, as evidenced by West Indians' insecure legal status, persistent wage and job discrimination, limited social acceptance, and political…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Economic Opportunities, Immigrants
1984
Texas Governor Mark White established a 28-member Governor's Task Force on Immigration on March 24, 1983 to: (1) examine the impact on Texas and its citizens of the legislative issues in the proposed federal Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1983; (2) hold public hearings to gain input from citizens, business, industry, labor, ranching and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation, Hearings, Immigrants

Persidsky, Igor V.; Kelly, James J. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1992
Reviews patterns of migration among the elderly worldwide, highlighting the immigration of elderly people from the Soviet Union to the United States. Describes their social and economic status in the Soviet Union, and their particular problems among Soviet immigrants. Considers ways in which appropriate education can resolve some problems. (DMM)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). – 1979
Designed as an information document, this report describes the activities of the Council in facilitating the settlement of migrant workers' children in the compulsory schooling systems of host countries. Experimental classes are discussed in terms of the basic aims of the integration of migrant children through language learning, maintenance of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Experimental Programs, Immigrants
National Puerto Rican Coalition, Washington, DC. – 1992
This booklet describes the issues and findings of a series of symposia on Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and in the United States. From 1988 to 1992, six symposia were held, three in the United States and three in Puerto Rico, on topics such as migration, culture and language, community characteristics, strengthening relations between the two…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Development, Community Relations, Conferences
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