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Pablo Lamino; Carlos Duran Gabela; Renzo Ceme Vinces; Amy E. Boren-Alpízar – NACTA Journal, 2024
An estimated 4,350,000 immigrants reside in Texas, comprising 20% of the workforce and wielding a spending power of up to $112.8 billion. Negative sentiment towards migrants has created a hostile environment, despite their substantial socio-economic contributions. Efforts to mitigate this sentiment involve youth education, targeting younger…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Undocumented Immigrants, Undergraduate Students
Brown, Everett-Teejay – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The need for mental health services for Latinx communities is growing due to shifting demographics in the United States and increased immigration from Latin America (Provencio Vasquez et al., 2011; Torres & Vallejo, 2015). Unfortunately, Latinx people in the U.S. face disparities in both access to and quality of mental health treatment (Davis…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Mental Health, Health Services, Males
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Reichenberg, Monica; Berhanu, Girma – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2019
The Scandinavian countries currently face their largest ever wave of immigration. The immigration wave increases the need for immigrants to learn the host language to be able to participate in work life and become a citizen of the host country. Yet, the language training programmes -- 'Swedish for Immigrants' in Sweden have come under great…
Descriptors: Barriers, Second Language Learning, Immigrants, Second Language Programs
Wang, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study expands understanding of Chinese international undergraduate students' stay inclinations in the United States. It analyzed a sample of 247 Chinese undergraduate students from a public Midwestern research university during Spring 2017. This study compared the differences in stay inclinations between Chinese undergraduate students who…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Universities, Foreign Students, Comparative Analysis
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Engel, Laura C.; Rutkowski, Leslie; Rutkowski, David – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
With globalization, the world has become more interconnected and interdependent, with people, capital, and ideas rapidly migrating across borders. Yet, along with greater global interdependence and increased diversity within societies, economic and social inequalities have deepened, making poverty one of the leading global problems. To lessen…
Descriptors: Immigration, Poverty, Social Integration, Global Approach
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers