Social media identities of African immigrant youth: implications for educators

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
George Nantwi ◽  
Hui Soo Chae ◽  
Gary Natriello
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
African Immigrant

Exploring Factors That Facilitate Acculturation Strategies and Academic Success of West African Immigrant Youth in Urban Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Kumi-Yeboah ◽  
Gordon Brobbey ◽  
Patriann Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
West African ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
New School

Immigrant students in U.S. educational system experience challenges learning to adapt and integrate into new educational environments. Little is known, however, about factors that facilitate acculturation strategies of immigrant youth from West Africa and how they affect their academic success and challenges faced. Considering the current political discourse over the influence of immigration in U.S. schools, 20 immigrant youth from Ghana and Nigeria were recruited and interviewed in the metropolitan area of New York City. Analyses of semi-structured interviews revealed that teacher, parent, and peer support; social and electronic media; and extracurricular activities emerged as the factors that helped acculturation strategies and academic success. Challenging factors were dealing with sociocultural differences; discrimination, stress, and social integration; and language differences. The article discusses the implications of these findings for teachers to understand acculturation strategies to help West African immigrant youth to adapt, acculturate, and integrate into new school environments.

scholarly journals Health Literacy from the Perspective of African Immigrant Youth and Elderly: A PhotoVoice Project

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1730-1747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwatoyosi Adekeye ◽  
Jen Kimbrough ◽  
Bola Obafemi ◽  
Robert W. Strack
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
African Immigrant

Reconfiguring Documentation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Day Labor ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Labor Organizing ◽  
Federal Laws ◽  
Political Inclusion ◽  
Policies And Programs

This essay examines how the strategies of activists involved in the Immigrant Youth Justice League (IYJL) in Chicago in the early 2010s were taken up within the broader migrant rights movement. It focuses on migrant activists’ use of media tactics as part of the No Papers, No Fear Ride for Justice campaign in 2012, in which they organized against anti-immigrant state and federal laws, policies, and programs. These activists, many of whom were members of the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), and the Puente Movement in Arizona, utilized documentary media as a means to both shield themselves from detention and deportation, as well as to create counter-documents, which challenged the state’s ability to determine the parameters of political inclusion and to mobilize other undocumented migrants. These activists’ circulation of counter-documents through digital and social media relates to their adoption of mobility as a political strategy and as a means of mobilization.

scholarly journals Strategies to Increase Latino Immigrant Youth Engagement in Health Promotion Using Social Media: Mixed-Methods Study (Preprint)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Louise Andrade ◽  
W Douglas Evans ◽  
Nicole Barrett ◽  
Mark Cameron Edberg ◽  
Sean D Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Social Marketing Campaign ◽  
Latino Immigrant Youth ◽  
Latino Immigrant

BACKGROUND Generating participant engagement in social media applications for health promotion and disease prevention efforts is vital for their effectiveness and increases the likelihood of effecting sustainable behavior change. However, there is limited evidence regarding effective strategies for engaging Latino immigrant youth using social media. As part of the Avance Center for the Advancement of Immigrant/Refugee Health in Washington, DC, USA, we implemented Adelante, a branded primary prevention program, to address risk factors for co-occurring substance use, sexual risk, and interpersonal violence among Latino immigrant adolescents aged 12 to 19 years in a Washington, DC suburb. OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to (1) characterize Adelante participant Facebook reach and engagement and (2) identify post content and features that resulted in greater user engagement. METHODS We established the Adelante Facebook fan page in October of 2013, and the Adelante social marketing campaign used this platform for campaign activities from September 2015 to September 2016. We used Facebook Insights metrics to examine reach and post engagement of Adelante Facebook page fans (n=743). Data consisted of Facebook fan page posts between October 1, 2013 and September 30, 2016 (n=871). We developed a 2-phased mixed-methods analytical plan and coding scheme, and explored the association between post content categories and features and a composite measure of post engagement using 1-way analysis of variance tests. P<.05 determined statistical significance. RESULTS Posts on the Adelante Facebook page had a total of 34,318 clicks, 473 comments, 9080 likes or reactions, and 617 shares. Post content categories that were statistically significantly associated with post engagement were Adelante program updates (P<.001); youth achievement showcases (P=.001); news links (P<.001); social marketing campaign posts (P<.001); and prevention topics, including substance abuse (P<.001), safe sex (P=.02), sexually transmitted disease prevention (P<.001), and violence or fighting (P=.047). Post features that were significantly associated with post engagement comprised the inclusion of photos (P<.001); Spanish (P<.001) or bilingual (P=.001) posts; and portrayal of youth of both sexes (P<.001) portrayed in groups (P<.001) that were facilitated by adults (P<.001). CONCLUSIONS Social media outreach is a promising strategy that youth programs can use to complement in-person programming for augmented engagement. The Latino immigrant youth audience in this study had a tendency toward more passive social media consumption, having implications for outreach strategies and engagement measurement in future studies. While study findings confirmed the utility of social marketing campaigns for increasing user engagement, findings also highlighted a high level of engagement among youth with posts that covered casual, day-to-day program activity participation. This finding identifies an underexplored area that should be considered for health messaging, and also supports interventions that use peer-to-peer and user-generated health promotion approaches.

scholarly journals Strategies to Increase Latino Immigrant Youth Engagement in Health Promotion Using Social Media: Mixed-Methods Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. e71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Louise Andrade ◽  
W Douglas Evans ◽  
Nicole Barrett ◽  
Mark Cameron Edberg ◽  
Sean D Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Latino Immigrant Youth ◽  
Latino Immigrant

Identity Constructions and Negotiations Among 1.5- and Second-Generation Nigerians: The Impact of Family, School, and Peer Contexts

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Awokoya
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Identity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Past scholarship on immigrant racial and ethnic identity construction tends to ignore the processes by which social context influences identity at the individual level. In this qualitative study, Janet T. Awokoya presents a complex understanding of 1.5- and second-generation African immigrant youths’ identities. Awokoya explores how three major contexts—family, school, and peer groups—affect the ways in which African immigrant youth construct and negotiate their racial and ethnic identities. Further, she contends that the ways in which African immigrant youth are expected to conform to ideals of what it means to be African, Nigerian, African American, and Black, which dramatically shift across contexts, significantly confound the racial and ethnic identity constructions and negotiations for these youth. The article concludes with a discussion of practical and theoretical implications for identity development among Black immigrant youth.

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