Chapter 22 Promoting the Educational Success of Latin American Immigrant Children Separated from Parents during Migration

2010 ◽  
pp. 517-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Z. Poggio ◽  
T.H. Gindling
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
American Immigrant

Dermatoses in Latin American Immigrant Children Seen in a Universitary Hospital of Spain

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Pérez-Crespo ◽  
José Manuel Ramos-Rincón ◽  
María Pilar Albares-Tendero ◽  
Isabel Betlloch-Mas
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
American Immigrant

scholarly journals Life satisfaction in childhood: Latin American immigrant children in Chile

Psihologija ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Alfonso Urzúa ◽  
Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar ◽  
Bárbara Alquinta ◽  
Roberto Jeria ◽  
Ricardo Jorquera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Satisfaction Index ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Overall Life Satisfaction

The goal of the current study was to evaluate life satisfaction in a sample of 300 immigrant children aged between 8 and 13 years old. Satisfaction in different domains and overall life, was evaluated using the General Domain Satisfaction Index and the Overall Life Satisfaction index, respectively. These instruments were also applied to a sample of 300 non-immigrant children of similar age. Statistically significant differences were found only in the 12?13 years group, where the mean scores for immigrants were lower than those for natives, on the domains of family and home, material goods, interpersonal relationships, health, and use of time. Additionally, immigrants had higher mean scores on the domains of area of residence, school, and personal satisfaction. These results allow us to reflect on the influence of society in all domains throughout their lives. Thus, these findings contribute toward the creation of policies that integrate migrants.

scholarly journals Yo Cuento* Latin American Immigrant Children Tell Their Stories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Carolina Valencia Vega
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Brokering

Despite considerable interest in studying immigrant children in Canada, few studies include immigrant children as study participants. This study involved 10 children born in Latin American who have lived in Canada for five years or less. These children were between the ages of nine and 11 - five boys and five girls. Five children were from Colombia, two from Venezuela, one from Mexico, one from Bolivia and one from Ecuador. I conducted individual research sessions where children and I drew, wrote and conversed. Children drew the most significant events in their migration process and wrote short narratives. The main findings from this study include the impact of grandmother/grandchild separation on immigrant children, children’s multiple transitions across countries and within Canada, children’s worries due to language barriers, and the value children place on peer cultural brokering. The paper concludes with recommendations and a reminder of the importance of conducting research with children. Key words: Immigrant children, Latin America, loss, residential mobility, cultural brokering.

scholarly journals Yo Cuento* Latin American Immigrant Children Tell Their Stories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Carolina Valencia Vega
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Brokering

Despite considerable interest in studying immigrant children in Canada, few studies include immigrant children as study participants. This study involved 10 children born in Latin American who have lived in Canada for five years or less. These children were between the ages of nine and 11 - five boys and five girls. Five children were from Colombia, two from Venezuela, one from Mexico, one from Bolivia and one from Ecuador. I conducted individual research sessions where children and I drew, wrote and conversed. Children drew the most significant events in their migration process and wrote short narratives. The main findings from this study include the impact of grandmother/grandchild separation on immigrant children, children’s multiple transitions across countries and within Canada, children’s worries due to language barriers, and the value children place on peer cultural brokering. The paper concludes with recommendations and a reminder of the importance of conducting research with children. Key words: Immigrant children, Latin America, loss, residential mobility, cultural brokering.

scholarly journals Editors' welcome, PORTAL, Vol 7, No 2, July 2010

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Allatson
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Editorial Committee ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
American Immigrant

This issue of PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies comprises five articles in its general essays section, and two works in its creative works section. We are delighted with the inclusion of the first three essays: “‘A Bit of a Grope’: Gender, Sex and Racial Boundaries in Transitional East Timor,” by Roslyn Appleby; “Undermining the Occupation: Women Coalminers in 1940s Japan,” by Matthew Allen; and “Pan-pan Girls: Humiliating Liberation in Postwar Japanese Literature,” by Rumi Sakamoto. These essays were presented in earlier formats at the two-day workshop, “Gender and occupations and interventions in the Asia Pacific, 1945-2009,” held in December 2009 at the
Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong. The workshop was convened by Christine de Matos, a research fellow at CAPSTRANS, and Rowena Ward, a Lecturer in Japanese at the Language Centre, in the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong. The editorial committee at Portal is particularly grateful to Christine and Rowena for facilitating the inclusion of these essays in this issue of the journal. Augmenting those studies is “Outcaste by Choice: Re-Genderings in a Short Story by Oka Rusmini,” an essay by Harry Aveling, the renowned Australian translator and scholar of Indonesian literature, which provides fascinating insights into the intertextual references, historical contexts and caste-conflicts explored by one of Indonesia’s most important Balinese authors. Liliana Edith Correa’s “El lugar de la memoria: Where Memory Lies,” is an evocative exploration of the newly emergent Latin(o) American identifications in Australia as constructed through self-conscious memory work among, and by, a range of Latin American immigrant artists and writers. We are equally pleased to conclude the issue with two text/image works by the Vancouver-based Canadian poet Derek Symons. Paul Allatson, Editor, PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies.

The Borderlines of Family Reunification

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Perry
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
Primary Focus

This chapter explores the importance of family in 1980s immigration discourse. While family reunification has been the primary focus of immigration policy since 1965, in the context of the “immigration emergency,” some lawmakers viewed Asian and Latin American immigrant families as threats to American “family values” and the economy. This chapter traces backlash against multiculturalism and second-wave feminism as it arose in “family values” rhetoric. It also comparatively traces the “nation of immigrants” narrative in television shows that represented white ethnic immigrant families as industrious additions to the nation who overcame poverty with nothing but hard work. While these non-nuclear families sometimes seemed to be queer, the chapter argues that racially differentiated discourses about immigrant families reflected and created a flexible neoliberal narrative of “personal responsibility” that erased or glossed over the racial politics affecting Asian and Latin American immigrants and the global forces underscoring immigration.

Parental Involvement among First- and Second-generation Latin Americans in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2094855
Author(s):  
Karen Z. Kramer ◽  
Esra Şahin ◽  
Qiujie Gong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
American Time Use Survey ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
First And Second Generation

Immigration to a host culture often involves significant changes in parenting norms and behaviors. The authors take an acculturation lens to explore parental involvement among different generations of Latin American immigrant families. It compares the quantity and type of parental involvement of first- and second-generation Latin American immigrants to that of parents who are at least a third generation in the United States while examining whether differences exist between mothers and fathers. Data from the 2003–2013 American Time Use Survey are used for our analyses, which finds differences between parenting behaviors of first-generation immigrants from Latin America and third-generation parents. Second-generation mothers were also found to be significantly different from third-generation mothers in almost every type of parental involvement, while second-generation Latin American fathers were similar to third-generation fathers in quantity and type of parental involvement.

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