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Prewitt Diaz, Joseph O.; And Others – 1989
This report re-examines previously gathered ethnographic data derived from approximately 3,000 hours of interviews with migrants across the United States to determine what factors associated with migration affect children's educational outcomes. The data suggest the existence of a "culture of migrancy," which is manifested in similar…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography
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
Australian Inst. of Multicultural Affairs, Melbourne (Australia). – 1982
This booklet summarizes the findings and recommendations of an evaluation of the Australian government's programs and services for migrants. Rollowing a description of the organization of the full report, three opening chapters provide, respectively, (1) a broad overview of the evaluation; (2) a discussion of its approach and methodology; and (3)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Civil Rights, Coordination, Cultural Pluralism
Australian Inst. of Multicultural Affairs, Melbourne (Australia). – 1982
This book assesses the effectiveness of recommendations implemented after the release of the Australian government's "Report of the Review of Post-Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants" in 1977. In general, the implementation of the Report's proposals has been of substantial benefit to migrants (both newly arrived and longer…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Civil Rights, Coordination, Cultural Pluralism
Hopf, Diether; Hatzichristou, Chryse – 1992
This paper presents salient points of a comprehensive project on the educational problems of southern European migrant workers' children in schools in Germany. These selected findings concern the origins of the migrants, the selectiveness of the migration process, and the school situation of the children of the migrants and of those migrants who…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education