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Arlene Bjugstad; Jodi Berger Cardoso; Tzuan A. Chen; Kalina M. Brabeck; Sharon Borja – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Using a multidimensional, integrative approach this study examined the influence of social position factors (nativity, economic hardship, and language) and environmental contexts (community trauma, geographic location, and discrimination) on three domains of school engagement (cognitive, behavioral, and relational) among a community sample of…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Environmental Influences, Learner Engagement, Predictor Variables
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Bezcioglu-Goktolga, Irem; Yagmur, Kutlay – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
By using a quantitative approach, we examined the family language policy of Turkish parents in the Netherlands. Based on our earlier ethnographic work with 20 Turkish families and interviews with 35 parents, we designed and conducted a large-scale survey among 116 first-generation and 184 second-generation parents. The findings reveal that both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Immigrants, Family Relationship
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Alessio Buonomo; Giustina Orientale Caputo; Giuseppe Gabrielli; Giuseppe Gargiulo – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Scholars have argued that, on average, immigrant students are 'optimists' and have higher educational aspirations than non-migrant students after accounting for students' socio-economic background and educational performance. However, ethnic minority groups, which proxy the different origin backgrounds of migrants, may show mixed findings in terms…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Academic Aspiration, High School Students, Postsecondary Education
Wall, Katherine; Wood, Shane – Statistics Canada, 2023
This study uses the 2021 Census to describe the educational attainment and earnings of the Canadian-born Black population, focusing on three groups: (1) those with at least one African-born parent (African-origin); (2) those with at least one Caribbean-born parent (Caribbean-origin) and (3) those whose parents were both born in Canada…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Income
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Corinne Hébert; Julie Goulet; Kristel Tardif-Grenier; Linda S. Pagani; Isabelle Archambault – Journal of Education, 2024
This paper describes the nature of home-school value discrepancies perceived by students, and tests associations between such value discrepancies and teacher-student relationships with student generational status as a moderator. Using a sample of 1,551 students from grades 10 and 11, chi-square tests and ANOVAs were used to describe the nature of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Grade 11
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Thao-Nguyen Nina Le; Pavel Trofimovich – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
Research on heritage language (HL) development often focuses on immigrants' identity and social network as predictors of HL maintenance. However, an important and overlooked factor is the socio-political circumstances that trigger emigration, such as whether immigrants relocate due to economic hardship or political turmoil. This study examines if…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Coskun Erden – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the factors influencing immigrant students' enrollment in advanced mathematics courses during their high school years in the United States. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), this research investigates the association between each of the variables Institutional agent related social capital…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Social Capital, Advanced Courses, Mathematics Instruction
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Knouse, Stephanie M.; Neves, Renee; Ortiz, Erik; Acosta-Rua, Daria – Hispania, 2022
The present study explores Spanish-English speakers' attitudes toward bilingual discourse in the Upstate of South Carolina. Implementing a mixed methods approach, survey data and sociolinguistic interviews targeting bilinguals' attitudes toward English-origin nonce borrowings, loanshifts, and codeswitching were examined. Quantitative analyses…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Code Switching (Language)
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Figlio, David; Özek, Umut – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
We use matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida to investigate whether first-, second-, and third-generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants have different educational success (measured by test scores, disciplinary problems, truancy, high school graduation, and college readiness). We find that, for both Asian and Hispanic…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Immigrants, Generational Differences, Academic Achievement
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Bahena, Sofia – Child Development, 2020
Scholars have proposed that immigrant optimism explains why some immigrant students outperform their United States-born peers academically. Yet, immigrant optimism has not been directly measured. This study aims to test the immigrant optimism hypothesis by operationalizing it using the Children's Hope Scale. Using structural equation modeling, the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Psychological Patterns, Positive Attitudes, Hispanic American Students
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Sebastian Neumeyer; Gisela Will – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Given their lower socioeconomic background and achievement, immigrants and their descendants have been shown to make more ambitious decisions regarding educational transitions. While previous research has extensively analysed transitions within and after compulsory education, research on late transitions is scarce. This study focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Grade 9, Learning Trajectories
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Caballero, Jennifer; Dayne, Nancy; Reiboldt, Wendy; Tran, Lana – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2021
Remittances, money, or products sent to relatives at a distance is a common practice Filipino Americans use to retain ties and assist their family members living in the Philippines. This study investigated first-generation Filipino Americans' remittance practices and second-generation's intention to remit, to better understand the dynamics around…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Filipino Americans, Family Relationship, Generational Differences
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Maria de Lourdes Viloria – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This article evaluates data from a case study involving five third-generation Mexican American teachers who work in an urban school district in Central Texas. The study analyzes their social capital and their culturally responsive connections with immigrant, first-, second-, and third-generation Mexican American students' in and out-of-school…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Urban Schools, Social Capital
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Solomontos-Kountouri, Olga; Strohmeier, Dagmar – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Peer group integration is a crucial acculturative goal for immigrant adolescents who, in order to reach this goal, may use bullying and/or aggressive behavior. The present study aims to explore the underlying aggression motives by investigating the importance of three motives (anger, power, and affiliation) for five different forms of aggressive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Immigrants
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Beicht, Ursula; Walden, Günter – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2019
Context: For young people with a migrant background in Germany transition from school to company-based vocational training is much more difficult than for non-migrants. This remains true, when data is controlled for the lower performance of young migrants in general education. In this paper we investigate if and how far the chances of transition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Vocational Education, Generational Differences
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