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Chelsea Stinson – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024
This qualitative study is focused on the political and social connections among disability, race, language, and migration that affect how emergent bilingual students are labeled as disabled and marginalized in schools despite--or, perhaps, through--educational and migration policies. Specifically, this study is concerned with the connections…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Power Structure, Educational Policy
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
Whether in flight from conflict, with the hope of building a better life, or to seize a social or economic opportunity, people have been crossing borders for as long as there have been borders to cross. Modern means of transportation and communication, the globalisation of the labour market, and the ageing of populations in OECD (Organisation for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Achievement Gap, Migrant Children
State Univ. of New York, Ithaca. Coll. of Human Ecology at Cornell Univ. – 2002
Presented in English and Spanish, this publication compiles 13 presentations at a conference celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Cornell Migrant Program. The entries examine experiences of migrant workers and children related to immigrating, finding work, enduring discrimination and police harassment, switching schools frequently, suffering…
Descriptors: Activism, Agribusiness, Community Change, Immigration
Taylor, J. Edward; Martin, Philip L.; Fix, Michael – 1997
This book synthesizes the views of California's preeminent rural development researchers on how immigration is transforming rural California communities. It draws on papers presented at two conferences held in Asilomar and Riverside (California) in 1995 and 1996. Conference participants were asked to consider whether rural poverty is being…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Change, Federal Programs, Immigrants
Martin, Philip L.; Martin, David A. – 1994
Twelve federal migrant programs currently provide over $600 million annually to assist migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. Four programs (the Migrant Education Program, Migrant Head Start, Migrant Health, and job training and ancillary services under the Job Training Partnership Act) account for 90 percent of federal migrant…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Data Collection, Databases
Kissam, Edward; Intili, Jo Ann; Garcia, Anna – 2001
The U.S. agricultural labor market is already, in many respects, a binational one, and it will become increasingly one in which workers who are born in Mexico will follow a variety of worklife trajectories that take them back and forth between both countries. Recognition of this reality has important implications for policy development and program…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescents, Braceros, Child Labor