Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth [Hardcover]

This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for policy and intervention.The success and well-being of immigrant youth has become a vital issue for many receiving societies in North America and Europe as a result of global migration. This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for education, policy, and intervention.The success and well-being of immigrant youth has become a vital issue for many receiving societies in North America and Europe as a result of global migration. This volume brings together leading scholars on immigrant youth to discuss current research and its implications for education, policy, and intervention.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.Introduction Ann S. Masten, Karmela Liebkind and Donald J. Hernandez; 1. Resources, strengths, and challenges for children in immigrant families in eight affluent countries Donald J. Hernandez; 2. Better fortunes? Living arrangements and school enrolment of migrant youth in six western countries Audrey N. Beck and Marta Tienda; 3. Income poverty and income support for lsð