Foreign Born Children in the United States in the Eighties.

Waggoner, Dorothy

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ERIC Number: EJ410835

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Publication Date: 1987

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Foreign Born Children in the United States in the Eighties.

Waggoner, Dorothy

NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, v12 n1 p23-49 Fall 1987

Summarizes information on the numbers of foreign-born children in the United States in 1980 and data on immigrant children 1980-85. Examines census data on the language characteristics, educational attainment, and economic status of recent immigrants from Mexico and 11 other countries. Contains 8 data tables. (Auth/SV)

Descriptors: Asian Americans, Census Figures, Children, Cubans, Demography, Economic Status, Educational Attainment, Family Income, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants, Language Proficiency, Limited English Speaking, Mexican Americans, Occupations, Unemployment

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Language: English

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