Immigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood (Child Development in Cultural Context) Review

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Immigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood (Child Development in Cultural Context) ReviewImmigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood by Cynthia T. García Coll and Amy Kerivan Marks is a must-read for anyone who does research on child development, who cares for or teaches immigrant children, and who knows immigrant children. Currently, one of five children in the U.S. is either an immigrant child (himself or herself migrated to the U.S. from another country) or a child of immigrant parents. In fewer than 25 years, these children, together with other non-immigrant minority children will be America's new majority. Previous generations will need to depend on the productive life of these children when they reach adulthood. Yet research on immigrant children and families has remained scarce.
Immigrant Stories marks, undoubtedly, a major progress in filling this research gap. García Coll and Marks studied three different cultural groups--Portuguese, Dominican, and Cambodian-- located in the small but highly diverse city of Providence, capital of Rhode Island. Anyone who has studied any cultural group knows how daunting a task it is. But García Coll and Marks studied three vastly different cultural groups not in their own home cultures but in the U.S. They did not just send out a few surveys at one point in time, but they followed two cohorts of some 400 children and families for three years! They adopted the most celebrated ecological theory of child development in order to guide their research, but they also challenged the theory as lacking insight into the ever more expanding and complex context of immigrants. García Coll and Marks did what many researchers would not even attempt. They used both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather a vast amount of data from neighborhoods, parents, schools and teachers, and children themselves. Because of language difficulties and cultural differences, their team overcame tremendous challenges in order to collect data.
Immigrant Stories offers so many detailed and insightful analyses of these different groups' patterns of acculturation. The volume is a research gem that will inform parents, communities, educators, policy makers, and researchers themselves. Readers will be glad to have laid their hands on this remarkable book.
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