Protective Factors Immigrant Children Bring to the Classroom

2014 ◽  
pp. 265-279
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Onchwari
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Immigrant Paradox ◽  
Developmental Risks

This chapter focuses on strengths and protective factors immigrant children bring into the classroom. If well nurtured, these strengths can enhance immigrant children’s positive outcomes and those of future generations. The “immigrant paradox” is a phenomenon used to describe the positive outcomes of immigrant children despite developmental risks associated with their relocation and adjustment. Unfortunately, the effects of these protective factors reduce with later generations. This incredible loss is a gap that educators could fill. Using strategies that give immigrant families and children “voice” is critical in breaking through the barriers, stereotypes, attitudes, and under-information that come between the educators and the immigrant children in their care. Some strategies that have proven effective in accessing immigrant children’s strengths are suggested in this chapter.

scholarly journals Immigrant second generation in Prague: the case of preschool children

Geografie ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-214
Author(s):  
Eva Janská
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Language Knowledge

This contribution deals with the new phenomenom of preschool immigrant children in Czechia after 1990. It focuses on social, economic, cultural and ethnic characteristics of children's parents and on childern's language knowledge and adaptation in the kindergarten. There are also discussed factors influencing integration of immigrant families into the majority society as well as their willingness to stay in Czechia permanently. Our results bring about new insights into immigrants' lives and their co-existence with the majority society.

Peer victimization in youth from immigrant and non-immigrant US families

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 649-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Sulkowski ◽  
Sheri Bauman ◽  
Savannah Wright ◽  
Charisse Nixon ◽  
Stan Davis
Keyword(s):  
Peer Victimization ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Peer Aggression ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Research Project

The phenomenology of peer victimization in youth from immigrant and non-immigrant US families was investigated in the current study. Specifically, differences in how youth were victimized, their responses to being victimized, and how peer bystanders responded to peer aggression incidents involving youth from these respective groups were investigated. Data were collected from two subsets of youth involved in a national research project. Results indicate that youth from immigrant families are more likely than their non-immigrant peers to report being victimized by physical aggression and to be victimized because of issues related to their race, religion, and family income. In addition, youth from immigrant families were more likely to report that their own responses to peer aggression were less likely to lead to positive outcomes and that peer bystander interventions did not benefit them as much as these interventions benefited their non-immigrant peers. Lastly, a concerning number of youth from immigrant families reported that both their own and bystander responses to peer aggression actually resulted in negative outcomes for them.

Stereotypes of Refugees as Presented in the Media and the Reality of Problems Linked with Cultural Adaptation and Social Integration of the Immigrant Children.

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (s1) ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
Sylwia Miazga
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

Abstract The situation of refugees living in Poland depends not only on legal aspects. A very important role is also played by social factors, which optionally condition and influence the status of foreigners in our country. One of them is undoubtedly the way of presenting the described phenomenon in the media, as well as the attitude of Poles to refugees, and how our country guarantees them protection and enables them to find their place in the new reality. Analysis of the problems of immigrant families in Poland may provide valuable information to research the problem of refugees in a European context.

Early reading achievement of children in immigrant families: Is there an immigrant paradox?

2008 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1381-1395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Palacios ◽  
Katarina Guttmannova ◽  
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Keyword(s):  
Reading Achievement ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Early Reading ◽  
Immigrant Paradox
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