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Amanda C. Eastern – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Resettlement can be an overwhelming experience for refugee families with young children but early care and education (ECE) services have been found to help refugees integrate into their new communities. However, refugee families are less likely to utilize ECE than U.S. born and other immigrant families. Although ECE utilization is low among…
Descriptors: Refugees, Mother Attitudes, Social Integration, Land Settlement
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Brown, Steve – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article explores connections between language and the social inclusion of immigrants. It analyses three different models of immigration settlement: assimilation, integration through social capital, and inclusion. It then explores how education - and in particular the teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - can promote…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Immigrants
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Volante, Louis; Lara, Camila; Klinger, Don A.; Siegel, Melissa – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
In the larger context of migration, the education and integration of immigrant children within Canadian school systems has become a pressing concern for education policy makers. Through a systematic content analysis, this study developed a Multidimensional Support Model to examine education policies and support measures that have been articulated…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Public Education, Social Integration, Educational Policy
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Choi, Soobin; Cha, Yun-Kyung – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
This study aims to examine whether there exists a gap in patriotic pride in host countries between immigrant and native students and whether an integration policy in education would work to narrow the gap. This study assumes that immigrant students' patriotic pride in host countries may not only result from immigrant status but also it may be a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Patriotism, Social Integration, Public Policy
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Doyle, John – Ethnography and Education, 2022
The newly arrived Roma Slovak community in a large urban city in the north of England has been widely perceived as having a myriad of social problems and there is a conflict with the wider community. This paper presents the results of a project to explore barriers and possibilities for the social and educational integration of newly arrived Roma…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Urban Areas, Social Problems, Conflict
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Nagy, György – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
Without the study of culture, second language acquisition is not complete (Kramsch, 1993). Teaching about culture raises the learners' awareness of the target culture and compares it with the home culture, providing an intercultural competence (Ibid). Due to the growing number of immigrants in Ireland (CSO Ireland, 2017), there is also an…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Immigrants
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Ianos, Maria Adelina; Sansó, Clara; Huguet, Àngel; Petreñas, Cristina – Language and Education, 2019
Following the arrival of a large number of immigrants in Catalonia (Spain), a series of language and educational policies focused on language uses, competences, and attitudes have been implemented with the aim to promote newcomers' social integration and to protect and maintain the regional language, Catalan. This study examines these key factors…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Usage, Immigrants, Secondary School Students
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Yeung, Shirley – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
This article examines two social categories brought into being by recent migration policies in Switzerland: the expatriate (or "expat") and the migrant. Treating these categories as relationally constituted, the article explores how this distinction was constructed and managed in response to processes of European harmonization in the…
Descriptors: Classification, Immigrants, Social Integration, Public Policy
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Norozi, Sultana Ali – Pastoral Care in Education, 2019
This study explores how the reception teacher understands her responsibility to support newly arrived migrant pupils' mental well-being in her everyday practices. The three interconnected circle model represents mental well-being as a prerequisite for integration and for academic and social development. The teacher's self-perceived responsibility…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Well Being, Elementary School Students, Teacher Responsibility
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Arulmani, Gideon – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
This paper uses the cultural preparedness approach to analyse the interface between the aspirations of immigrants and their engagement with systems of the host country. It draws upon interviews with 84 immigrants from 35 developing countries living in 9 high-income countries. Based upon Edmund Husserl's hermeneutical phenomenology, two studies are…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Immigrants, Phenomenology, Acculturation
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Judit Langer-Buchwald – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2019
The migration crisis of the past few years has influenced Hungary and Austria; therefore, migration, as well as its linguistic effect on society and education, and the cultural and social variation came to the front in both countries' educational policies. Nonetheless, while Austria is a well-developed welfare country, and according to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Hungarian, Public Policy
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Ianos, Maria Adelina; Huguet, Àngel; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Language attitudes have become more relevant than ever as a result of the considerable number of immigrant students enrolled in the Catalan educational system and the challenges this entails in terms of promoting social integration and language learning. Therefore, the objective of the study is to increase our understanding of language attitudes…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Social Integration
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Garthus-Niegel, Kristian; Oppedal, Brit; Vike, Halvard – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Education has continuously been regarded as a vital tool in Norwegian policymakers' immigrant integration agendas. This study analyzes semantic structures substantiating the policy language of historical Norwegian immigrant education policies from their inception in 1973 until today (2013). The analysis is framed by Kronenfeld's linguistic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Social Systems, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Ali, Saba Rasheed; Fall, Kevin; Hoffman, Tina – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
Unemployment is a stark reality in today's economic climate, and many Americans report a fear of loss or decrease in social status as a result of unexpected unemployment. Despite vocational psychology's emphasis on work as a domain of life, very little exploration on how social class shifts impact workers has been conducted. One way to rectify the…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Social Class, Social Mobility, World Views
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McAndrew, Marie – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background Context: In most immigrant-receiving societies, an important question, both for researchers and policy makers, has been the weighing of the relative efficiency of different formulas in the learning of the host language by immigrant students, especially the potential impact of specific services on social integration and the role of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Social Integration, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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