Educational Aspirations of Minority Youth

Kao, Grace; Tienda, Marta

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“…In this framework, families are an important social institution through which social stratification occurs. Parents act as role models and provide economic, social, cultural, and intellectual resources to their children; in turn, children aspire to attain comparable socioeconomic positions as adults (Kao and Tienda 1998).…”

Section: Research On Educational Aspirationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Mothers in Rural China Practice Gender Equality in Educational Aspirations for Their Children?

Zhang¹,

Kao²,

Hannum³

2007

Comparative Education Review

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Do Mothers in Rural China Practice Gender Equality in Educational Aspirations for Their Children?

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Kao²,

Hannum³

2007

Comparative Education Review

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“…Indeed, one-fifth of children in the U.S. are growing up in immigrant families, and 62% of these children are Latino (Hernandez, 2004). Although many Latino immigrants enter their schools engaged in learning and optimistic about their futures, their academic adjustment is precarious and vulnerable to change (Kao & Tienda, 1998;Portes & Rumbaut, 2001;Suárez-Orozco & Suárez-Orozco, 2001). Indeed, while newcomer immigrant youth enjoy an initial advantage relative to their non-immigrant counterparts, length of residence in the U.S. has been associated with declines in students' academic achievement and aspirations (Suarez-Orozco & Suarez-Orozco, 2001).…”

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Supportive adult relationships and the academic engagement of Latin American immigrant youth

Green

Rhodes

Hirsch

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Journal of School Psychology

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The central aim of this study was to explore the academic engagement trajectories of a sample of recently arrived immigrant students from Latin America. Using an analytic framework that can dynamically model time-sensitive fluctuations (HLM; [Raudenbush, S. W., & Bryk, A. S. (2002). Hierarchicical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods (2nd Edition ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications]), we explored how initial engagement, gender, and support from caring adults at school shaped youths' engagement over time. Students reported a range of engagement trajectories, with gender and support emerging as important predictors of youths' engagement trajectories. Additionally, perceptions of support fluctuated from year to year, and these fluctuations were linked to youths' academic engagement. The findings point to associations between support perceptions and engagement, including links between students' current academic motivation and effort and their current connections with adults. Taken together, the findings present a nuanced portrait of academic engagement and suggest how relationships at school might facilitate positive academic adjustment among Latin American immigrant students over time. Implications for future research, public policy, and practice are discussed.

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“…I argue that perceptions of downward mobility play a key role in the aspirations they place regarding the educational mobility of their offspring. This aspect relates to other accounts that explain the role of social class in migrant parents' aspirations for their children (Louie 2001), children's educational levels (Kao and Tienda 1998), and the role of socio-economic status and aspirations in children's ambitions (Portes et al 2013). For example, Louie (2001) studies the role of social class in parents' aspirations and educational experiences of Chinese Americans, showing the importance of class background in the messages parents transmit to their children regarding education, and in particular their schooling choices and involvement.…”

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“…It is, instead, an assertion that in their accounts extracurricular activities are not embedded in narratives of mitigating downwards social mobility. These findings also open new avenues for research, such as (i) unpacking the intersection of the business cycle, migration trajectory, type of business, and age/gender of the children (Song 1997;Stewart 2003); (ii) measuring the long-term implications of the children's work in their intergenerational social mobility (Kao and Tienda 1998;Louie 2001;Portes et al 2013); and (iii) the impact of children's social mobility on transforming ethnic economies (Sanghera 2002;Jones, Mascarenhas-Keyes, and Ram 2012). …”

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“Not helping out”: classed strategies of the (non) contribution of children in immigrant family businesses

Villares-Varela

2016

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This article analyses the role of immigrant entrepreneurs' class positions in understanding the participation of children in business activities. Immigrant entrepreneurship scholarship has highlighted how the participation of children depends on relations of reciprocity as well as on the lack of opportunities in paid employment. I argue that the (non) contribution of children has to do with the social mobility strategies that migrant families put in place. Drawing on the narratives of fifty-five Latin American entrepreneurs and family members in Spain, I explain (i) the role of the small firm in trajectories of social mobility, (ii) how class positions explain the (non) participation of children, and (iii) the mechanisms by which downward mobility is cushioned through practices of distinction for middle-class entrepreneurs. The article contributes to nuance our understanding of the role of family ties in migrant firms by integrating the impact of class on the lives of migrants' children.

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Educational Aspirations of Minority Youth

Cited by 671 publications

References 33 publications

Do Mothers in Rural China Practice Gender Equality in Educational Aspirations for Their Children?

Do Mothers in Rural China Practice Gender Equality in Educational Aspirations for Their Children?

Supportive adult relationships and the academic engagement of Latin American immigrant youth

“Not helping out”: classed strategies of the (non) contribution of children in immigrant family businesses

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