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The "Generous Heart": Teachers and Immigrants in the 21st Century
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Singh, Sukhmani; Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Immigrants are a fast-growing segment of the United States population. Presently, some 39.9 million immigrants call America home (Passel & Cohn, 2012; U.S. Census Bureau, 2011b). Today, immigrants come from all over the world, but most new Americans originate in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. It is because of the mass migration of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Demography, Immigrants, Immigration
Children of Immigration. The Developing Child Series.
Suarez-Orozco, Carola; Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – 2001
This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on who the children of immigrants are, considering historical and contemporary social attitudes, opportunities, and barriers they encounter. It examines the psychosocial experiences of immigration and considers how these factors interact in ways that lead to divergent pathways of adaptation and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Children, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Globalization, Immigration, and Education: The Research Agenda.
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Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – Harvard Educational Review, 2001
Situates the topic of immigration within globalization. Reviews research on new waves of immigrants and issues related to their schooling. Shows how some immigrant children thrive but others are economically and educationally disadvantaged by globalization. (Contains 19 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Children, Educational Experience, Elementary Secondary Education
California Dreaming: Proposition 187 and the Cultural Psychology of Racial and Ethnic Exclusion.
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Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
The current status of immigration issues at both national and global levels is examined. A psychocultural theory is presented of Proposition 187 as a paradigm of economic, demographic, and cultural anxieties produced by current immigration. Several potential outcomes of full implementation of Proposition 187 are explored. (MMU)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Discrimination