Understanding the Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth, Number 100 : New Directions for Youth Development

by Suarez-Orozco, Carola; L. G. Todorova, Irina

• ISBN13: 9780787972677
• ISBN10: 0787972673
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-14
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This issue seeks to deepen understanding of the major social influences that shape immigrant youths' paths in their transition to the United States, as well as of the complex interconnections among those influences. The authors delve into a number of social worlds that can contribute to the postivie development of immigrant youth. They also provide insight into sources of information about indentity pathway options available to those youth. The chapters offer new data regarding the developmental opportunities and challenges that family roles and responsibilities, school contexts, community organizations, religious involvement and beliefs, gendered expectations, and media influences present. Contributors provide a fresh perspective on the research, practice and policy implications of the social worlds of immigrant youth.This is the 100th issue of the Jossey-Bass journal New Directions for Youth Development.

Table of Contents

Editor-in-Chief's Notes	1	(4)
Gil G. Noam
Issue Editors' Notes	5	(4)
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Irina L. G. Todorova
Executive Summary	9	(6)
The Social worlds of immigrant youth	15	(10)
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Irina L. G. Todorova
Responsibilities of children in Latino immigrant homes	25	(16)
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Surfing the ``model minority'' wave of success: How the school context shapes distinct experiences among Vietnamese youth	41	(16)
Gilberto Q. Conchas
Cristina C. Perez
Ethnic language schools and the development of supplementary education in the immigrant Chinese community in the United States	57	(18)
Min Zhou
Xi-Yuan Li
``He is everything'': Religion's role in the lives of immigrant youth	75	(16)
Nora E. Thompson
Andrea G. Gurney
Gendered expectations and gendered experiences: Immigrant students' adaptation in schools	91	(20)
Desiree Baolian Qin-Hilliard
Media in the lives of immigrant youth	111	(20)
Josephine Louie
Index	131