Immigrant Children

Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation
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Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a "new" North America, this group of children and youth is not a singular homogenous group but rather, a mosaic and diverse ethnic, racial, and cultural group. Thus, our current understanding of "normative development" (covering social, psychological, cognitive, language, academic, and behavioral development), which has been generally based on middle-class Euro-American children, may not necessarily be "optimal" development for all children. Researchers are widely recognizing that the theoretical frameworks and models of child development lack the sociocultural and ethnic sensitivities to the ways in which developmental processes operate in an ecological context. As researchers progress and develop promising forms of methodological innovation to further our understanding of immigrant children, little effort has been placed to collectively organize a group of scholarly work in a coherent manner. Some researchers who examine ethnic minority children tended to have ethnocentric notions of normative development. Thus, some ethnic minority groups are understood within a "deficit model" with a limited scope of topics of interest. Moreover, few researchers have specifically investigated the acculturation process for children and the implications for cultural socialization of children by ethnic group. This book represents a group of leading scholars' cutting-edge research which will not only move our understanding forward but also to open up new possibilities for research, providing innovative methodologies in examining this complex and dynamic group. Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation will also take the research lead in guiding our current knowledge of how development is influenced by a variety of sociocultural factors, placing future research in a better position to probe inherent principles of child development. In sum, this book will provide readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach of how researchers, social service providers, and social policymakers can examine children and immigration.

Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a "new" North America, this group of children and youth is not a singular homogenous group but rather, a mosaic and diverse ethnic, racial, and cultural group. Thus, our current understanding of "normative development" (covering social, psychological, cognitive, language, academic, and behavioral development), which has been generally based on middle-class Euro-American children, may not necessarily be "optimal" development for all children. Researchers are widely recognizing that the theoretical frameworks and models of child development lack the sociocultural and ethnic sensitivities to the ways in which developmental processes operate in an ecological context. As researchers progress and develop promising forms of methodological innovation to further our understanding of immigrant children, little effort has been placed to collectively organize a group of scholarly work in a coherent manner. Some researchers who examine ethnic minority children tended to have ethnocentric notions of normative development. Thus, some ethnic minority groups are understood within a "deficit model" with a limited scope of topics of interest. Moreover, few researchers have specifically investigated the acculturation process for children and the implications for cultural socialization of children by ethnic group. This book represents a group of leading scholars' cutting-edge research which will not only move our understanding forward but also to open up new possibilities for research, providing innovative methodologies in examining this complex and dynamic group. Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation will also take the research lead in guiding our current knowledge of how development is influenced by a variety of sociocultural factors, placing future research in a better position to probe inherent principles of child development. In sum, this book will provide readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach of how researchers, social service providers, and social policymakers can examine children and immigration.

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VerlagIngram Publishers Services
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2013
Seitenangabe330 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
AbbildungenPaperback
MasseH22.5 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.4 cm 499 g
CoverlagLexington Books (Imprint/Brand)
AutorChuang, Susan S. (Hrsg.) / Moreno, Robert P. (Hrsg.) / Adams Michele (Beitr.) / Baumwell Lisa (Beitr.) / Berry John W. (Beitr.) / Boiger Michael (Beitr.) / Carhill Avary (Beitr.) / Chen Xinyin (Beitr.) / Coltrane Scott (Beitr.) / Cookston, Jeff (Beitr.) / Coyne Lisa W. (Beitr.) / Dias Sandra I. (Beitr.) / Este David (Beitr.) / Friesen, Christopher (Beitr.) / Han, Eun-Jin (Beitr.) / Kuczynski Leon (Beitr.) / Luther Kate (Beitr.) / Marks Amy (Beitr.) / Navara, Geoff (Beitr.) / Neto, Félix (Beitr.) / Ngo, Hieu Van (Beitr.) / Parke Ross D. (Beitr.) / Patton, Flannery (Beitr.) / Qin, Desiree (Beitr.) / Rasmi, Sarah (Beitr.) / Sabatier, Colette (Beitr.) / Suárez-Orozco, Carola (Beitr.) / Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. (Beitr.) / Tse, Hennis Chi-Hang (Beitr.)

Über den Autor Susan S. (Hrsg.) Chuang

Susan S. Chuang, Ph.D. (University of Rochester), is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research focuses on fathering, parenting, parent-child relationships of young children among immigrant and ethnic families in various sociocultural contexts (Asian: Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan; Latino/a: Paraguay, US; Black: Jamaica). Her second line of research examines families and immigration, collaborating with various national organizations in Canada. She conducts numerous volunteer workshops for the local communities that focus on various topics (e.g., parenting, education, child/youth development, employment). She has organized six international conferences on immigrant families. Roy Moodley, Ph.D. (University of Sheffield), is an Associate Professor in clinical and counseling psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Moodley is also the Director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy. His research interests include critical multicultural counseling and psychotherapy, race and culture in psychoanalysis, global south psychologies; traditional healing and mix-race relations. Uwe P. Gielen, Ph.D. (Harvard University), is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College, New York City, USA. His work focuses on cross-cultural and international psychology, Chinese American immigrant adolescents and young adults, international family psychology, and moral development. His more than 190 publications include 30 edited, co-edited, and co-authored volumes and nine special journal issues. He has lectured in 34 countries and has served as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, the International Council of Psychologists, and the International Psychology Division (52) of the American Psychological Association. Saadia Akram, Ed.D. (University of Toronto), is a registered psychologist with the Ontario College of Psychologists and operates her private practice in the Greater Toronto Areas (GTA), Canada, and also works within the non-profit, community based sector. She has more than 25 years of experience delivering individual/group psychological services and professional development trainings to a wide variety of diverse and multicultural populations.

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