Helping Young Refugees and Immigrants Succeed Public Policy, Aid, and Education

by Holton, Gerald; Sonnert, Gerhard

• ISBN13: 9780230621961
• ISBN10: 0230621961
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume focuses on one of the most topical issues of the day: the challenges that young refugees and immigrants face in this country, and the factors that facilitate their integration and help them succeed.

Author Biography

Gerhard Sonnert is Sociologist of Science and Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Setting the Stage: The Historical Framework
Questions of Success: Lessons from the Last Great Immigration	p. 9
Conceptual Frameworks for Obstacles to Immigrant Advancement: Perceiving Immigrants in the Context of Societal Change	p. 23
Looking into the Past: Some Lessons from the "Second Wave"
Successful Young Refugees from Central Europe-Potential Lessons for Today	p. 37
The Second Wave and the American-Jewish Community	p. 51
Helping Young Immigrants/Refugees Become Entrepreneurs	p. 61
Recent and Current Waves of Young Immigrants and Refugees
After the Cold War: Comparing Soviet Jewish and Vietnamese Youth in the 1980s to Today's Young Refugees	p. 75
Second Generation Advantages: Recasting the Debate	p. 89
The Changing Role of Race and Ethnicity in the Incorporation of Refugees, Immigrants, and their Children	p. 101
Young, Gifted, and West African: Transnational Migrants Growing Up in America	p. 113
Mexican Immigrant Legalization and Naturalization and Children's Economic Well-Being	p. 129
Educating Immigrants
Schooling Pathways of Newcomer Immigrant Youth	p. 151
The Importance of Raising Mexican American High School Graduation Rates	p. 167
Increasing Concrete Knowledge and Community Capacity: How CUNY and other Institutions Can Help Reshape Mexican Educational Futures in New York	p. 177
Institutions Providing Aid to Young Immigrants and Refugees
Tapping the Potential of Refugee Youth
Reasons for Living and Hoping: Strangers No Longer	p. 209
Protection of Refugee and Migrant Children: The Role of Nonprofits	p. 225
A Framework for the Care of Unaccompanied Children	p. 237
Looking into the Future
Home Country Farewell: The Withering of Immigrants' "Transnational" Ties	p. 253
Is There a Looming Period of Liminality for Race and Ethnicity in the United States?	p. 267
References	p. 279
Contributors	p. 303
Index	p. 311
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