Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth

by Masten, Ann S.; Liebkind, Karmela; Hernandez, Donald J.

• ISBN13: 9781107019508
• ISBN10: 1107019508
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-21
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The well-being and productivity of immigrant youth has become one of the most important global issues of our times as a result of mass migration and resettlement. In this unique volume, leading scholars from multiple nations and disciplines provide a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research on immigrant youth and delineate the most promising future directions for research on their success, suggesting implications for policy and interventions that will benefit host societies as well as immigrant youth. The contributors to Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth include many of the leading international experts on migration, acculturation, intergroup issues, and immigrant youth development, with contributions from the fields of child development, demography, economics, education, immigrant mental health, social psychology, and sociology.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Resources, strengths, and challenges for children in immigrant families in eight affluent countries

Better fortunes? Living arrangements and school enrolment of migrant youth in six western countries

Income poverty and income support for minority and immigrant households with children in rich countries

Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children

Positive immigrant youth adaptation in context: developmental, acculturation and social psychological perspectives

Understanding the immigrant paradox in youth: developmental and contextual considerations Cynthia

The contributions of youth to immigrant families

Specifying social psychological adaptation of immigrant youth: social identity, intergroup attitudes and intergroup interactions

Understanding ethnic minority identity

Muslim, American, and immigrant: integration despite challenges

Autonomous-related self and competence: the potential of immigrant youth

Thriving among immigrant youth: theoretical and empirical bases of positive development

The role of developmental transitions in psychosocial competence: a comparison of native and immigrant young people in Germany

Conceptualizing the school acculturative context: school, classroom, and the immigrant student

Peer relations in multicultural school

Latino education in the United States: immigration, language, and achievement

Promoting the well-being of immigrant youth: a framework for comparing outcomes and policies

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