Projects for Immigrant Children and Teenagers

Hadassah ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 242-266
Author(s):  
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Professional Workers ◽  
Young Immigrants

This chapter deals with Hadassah's projects for immigrant youth in particular. Hadassah's work in caring for children and teenagers in Israel's early years laid a particular emphasis on the care of young immigrants, who in the early 1950s constituted some 71 per cent of all children and teenagers within the Jewish population of Israel. Tens of thousands of youngsters arrived in these years, and the education they had received, if any, in the countries from which they came differed from that of their contemporaries in the Yishuv. As a result of the mass immigration, new social classes developed. The widespread social and economic hardship in these groups presented a serious challenge to the young nation, and a large number of the children and teenagers among them would years later be recognized as ‘underprivileged’. At the same time, there was a ‘frightening lack of professional workers [for children and youngsters] of all types’: teachers, educational counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers.

Anti-Jewish Incidents in the Lublin Region in the Early Years after World War II

2008 ◽  
pp. 177-205
Author(s):  
Adam Kopciowski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
Ritual Murder ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Post War ◽  
Anti Jewish

In the early years following World War II, the Lublin region was one of the most important centres of Jewish life. At the same time, during 1944-1946 it was the scene of anti-Jewish incidents: from anti-Semitic propaganda, accusation of ritual murder, economic boycott, to cases of individual or collective murder. The wave of anti-Jewish that lasted until autumn of 1946 resulted in a lengthy and, no doubt incomplete, list of 118 murdered Jews. Escalating anti-Jewish violence in the immediate post-war years was one of the main factors, albeit not the only one, to affect the demography (mass emigration) and the socio-political condition of the Jewish population in the Lublin region

scholarly journals The development of written expression in immigrant children from 6 to 9 years old

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-131
Author(s):  
Elisa de las Fuentes Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
School Context ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
Lexical Retrieval ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
Positive Feelings

AbstractThis article presents the results of a pilot study carried out based on texts from 15 immigrant children aged 6 to 9 years, who are learning Spanish in situations of immersion in the Communities of Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha. The aim is to understand how these students try to integrate into the school context and especially to determine whether the development of written expression during the early years of primary education allows them to carry out more complex linguistic actions aimed at communication, such as expressing positive attitudes towards the recipient. These actions may reveal the need to communicate and, therefore, the need to learn the language in order to integrate. The texts were taken from the ESCONES Corpus and were collected in a prior study on lexical retrieval and auditory perception in the development of communicative skills in children aged 6 to 9. The analysis carried out considered the vocabulary used, syntactic complexity and the use of linguistic actions in the different grades and found that the development of written expression may allow students to better express actions related to manifesting positive feelings and attitudes towards their interlocutor.

scholarly journals NAVIGATING THE CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY DURING CHILDHOOD FOR IMMIGRANT YOUTH IN CANADA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
MEGAN MACCORMAC ◽  
KATHERINE MACCORMAC
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Family Language Policy ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Family Language ◽  
Multiple Languages

One of the most influential decisions that immigrant parents must make for their children involves establishing a set of rules and norms governing what language(s) they will be raised with and how they will acquire proficiency in the dominant languages of the host society, a process known as family language policy. Such decisions can have long lasting effects for immigrant children into adulthood by influencing their integration into the host society and transition towards adult life. Using retrospective, in-depth interview data collected from young immigrant adults, this study explores the ways that parental decisions made throughout an immigrant child’s life course regarding language use and learning shape their multilingual identity and attitude towards the use of multiple languages in their everyday adult life. Findings suggest that the linguistic decisions parents make in the early years of an immigrant youths’ life have lasting impacts on them in terms of connecting to family members and culture in adulthood. We found that when parents created either a flexible or strict family language policy, such policies produced more positive experiences in the migration and early settlement process for immigrant youth compared to those whose parents did not form a family language policy.

Special Immigrant Juvenile Status

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
State Court ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Prior Residence ◽  
Permanent Residency ◽  
Similar Basis

Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) is an immigration classification that provides a pathway to lawful permanent residency for non-citizen immigrant children in the United States who have experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment, or similar basis under state law; who cannot reunify with one or both parents; who are under state court jurisdiction; and for whom it is not in their best interests to be returned to their country of nationality or prior residence. Social workers have played a significant role in the development of SIJS, and they have an ongoing role in the identification and referral of potentially eligible children as well as in the refinement of SIJS policies. Social workers’ roles with SIJS represent the profession’s multifaceted capacity, including support and referral with individual children, advocacy across multiple systems, and policy practice in the creation and continued improvement of this protective status.

Zajścia antyżydowskie na Lubelszczyźnie w pierwszych latach po drugiej wojnie światowej

2007 ◽  
pp. 178-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Kopciowski
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
Ritual Murder ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Post War ◽  
Anti Jewish

In the early years following World War II, the Lublin region was one of the most important centres of Jewish life. At the same time, during 19441946 it was the scene of anti-Jewish incidents: from anti-Semitic propaganda, accusation of ritual murder, economic boycott, to cases of individual or collective murder. The wave of anti-Jewish that lasted until autumn of 1946 resulted in a lengthy and, no doubt incomplete, list of 118 murdered Jews. Escalating anti-Jewish violence in the immediate post-war years was one of the main factors, albeit not the only one, to affect the demography (mass emigration) and the socio-political condition of the Jewish population in the Lublin region

scholarly journals Immigrant-Early childhood educator's experience of working with immigrant children and their families: arts-informed narrative inquiry self-study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oi Ling Helen Kwok
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Art Activities ◽  
Creative Self

Early years educational settings are often the first social environment that new immigrant children and their families engage in. Research in the field of education shows that immigrant children and their families are often best served by the educators, who themselves, are also immigrants. It is believed that immigrant educators are culturally knowledgeable and responsive to the needs of the children due to the shared immigration experiences and/or mother language. To gain a better insight into an immigrant-Early Childhood Educator’s experience of working with immigrant children and their families, I engage in a self-study using Connelly and Clandinin’s Narrative Inquiry. By engaging in Narrative Reflective Process, a series of creative art activities as data collection, I gather and reflect on my lived experiences to deepen my understanding into what may be most significant to immigrants. Three narrative patterns (challenges in a new home, a sense of belonging, perseverance) emerge within and across the told stories. Through my inquiry I invite all Early Childhood Educators to consider these in their own practice, as well as to reflect upon their own personal-professional experiences, through creative self expression approaches, and so to ponder how their values and beliefs might inform their professional practice.

scholarly journals (Op-Ed) Understanding and addressing the unaccompanied minor immigration issue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto F. L. Amaral ◽  
Daniel M. Gerstein
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Illegal Immigrants ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Customs And Border Protection ◽  
American Society ◽  
Immigration Issue ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Young Immigrants ◽  
Over Time

After declining sharply in 2015, the number of unaccompanied child immigrants apprehended at the U.S. southwest border appears to be on the rise again, a development that has the potential to reignite debate over what the United States should do about the plight of these young and vulnerable illegal immigrants. To properly consider this complex issue, it is essential to understand the changes that have occurred over time in the immigration landscape. A good place to start is a close examination of data gleaned from interviews with unaccompanied immigrant children conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel. Gathering and analyzing other data also could help policymakers develop initiatives to make it easier for young immigrants to integrate into American society.

The Jewish Population of Brest-Litovsk during the Period of German Occupation, 1915–1919: Analysis and Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Boris Czerny ◽  
Efim Basin
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Early Years ◽  
German Occupation

Abstract The present work aims to fill a gap by analyzing the situation facing the Jewish population of Brest between 1915 and 1919. It is based on unpublished documents and an accurate account of events in Yiddish. It further endeavors to outline the perspectives offered by the examination of the documents over a longer period of time, taking into account the early years of the Polish period. We believe that such an approach will not only allow us to stop considering the period 1915–1919 as an “empty” period, but also contribute to a better understanding of the situation of the Jewish population in Brest-Litovsk after 1919. This epigraphic analysis of the documents presented by the inhabitants of Brest when returning to obtain Polish nationality is a novel study of materials that have not previously been investigated.

Conservative Music Criticism, the Inflation, and Concert Life in Weimar Germany, 1919–1924

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-163
Author(s):  
Brendan Fay
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Cultural Crisis ◽  
Concert Life

In surveying the thirteen crisis-ridden years that Weimar democracy endured from its founding in 1919, perhaps none loom as large as the hyperinflation years spanning 1922–1923. According to many historians, the ‘Great Disorder’ not only destroyed the bonds between different social classes but also shattered Germans’ faith in and commitment to Weimar democracy. At the same time, Germany's cultural conservatives found themselves weathering a ‘cultural crisis’ brought on by the combined forces of artistic and technological innovation. In this article, I argue that our sense of Weimar's crises has been profoundly shaped by knowledge of what came later, and has tended to differ markedly from contemporaries’ sense of history and their place in it. This article examines the inflation's impact on German concert life, reassessing cultural conservatives—long held as hostile to Weimar democracy—and their attitudes toward German classical music, the nation, and society during the turbulent early years of the Weimar Republic.

scholarly journals Immigrant-Early childhood educator's experience of working with immigrant children and their families: arts-informed narrative inquiry self-study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oi Ling Helen Kwok
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Art Activities ◽  
Creative Self

Early years educational settings are often the first social environment that new immigrant children and their families engage in. Research in the field of education shows that immigrant children and their families are often best served by the educators, who themselves, are also immigrants. It is believed that immigrant educators are culturally knowledgeable and responsive to the needs of the children due to the shared immigration experiences and/or mother language. To gain a better insight into an immigrant-Early Childhood Educator’s experience of working with immigrant children and their families, I engage in a self-study using Connelly and Clandinin’s Narrative Inquiry. By engaging in Narrative Reflective Process, a series of creative art activities as data collection, I gather and reflect on my lived experiences to deepen my understanding into what may be most significant to immigrants. Three narrative patterns (challenges in a new home, a sense of belonging, perseverance) emerge within and across the told stories. Through my inquiry I invite all Early Childhood Educators to consider these in their own practice, as well as to reflect upon their own personal-professional experiences, through creative self expression approaches, and so to ponder how their values and beliefs might inform their professional practice.

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