Afterword: new directions in research with immigrant families and their children.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 100886823 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1534-8687 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 15203247 NLM ISO Abbreviation: New Dir Child Adolesc Dev Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons
Original Publication: San Francisco : Jossey Bass Publishers, c1998-

Emigrants and Immigrants* ; Family* ; Psychology*; Biomedical Research/*trends; Acculturation ; Adolescent ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Communication Barriers ; Family Characteristics ; Humans ; Organizational Policy ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Stereotyping ; United States

Although migration is fundamentally a family affair, the family, as a unit of analysis, has been understudied both by scholars of migration and by developmental psychologists. Researchers have often struggled to conceptualize immigrant children, adolescents, and their families, all too often giving way to pathologizing them, ignoring generational and ethnic distinctions among immigrant groups, stereotyping immigrants as "problem" or (conversely) "model" minorities, and overlooking the complexity of race, gender, documentation, and language in their lives. In addition, contexts other than the family remain understudied. In this afterword, the authors examine these issues, the contributions of the chapters in this volume to understanding them, and their implications for research and theory within the field of developmental science.
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Date Created: 20080917 Date Completed: 20090109 Latest Revision: 20080922

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