Migrations and Schooling

Mass migration is the human face of globalization. Where immigrant workers are summoned, families and children will follow. The great global migration wave of the past generation has generated a powerful demographic echo. Nearly all the high-income countries of the world are experiencing substantial...

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Published in:Annual review of anthropology 2011-01, Vol.40 (1), p.311-328
Main Authors: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M, Darbes, Tasha, Dias, Sandra Isabel, Sutin, Matt
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Anthropology of education
Children
Children & youth
Competence
Demographics
Education
Education systems
Educational systems
Ethnography
Ethnology
Face (Body)
Family
Global education
Globalization
Hispanics
Human ecology, environment
Human migration
Human settlements
Illegal immigrants
Immigrant acculturation
Immigrants
Language barrier
Language Varieties
Migrant workers
Migration
Migrations
Morphological source materials
Nation states
Parents
Physical anthropology, ethnobiology
Poverty
Race relations
racialization
Schooling
second language acquisition
Second language learning
Segregation
Social anthropology
Social inequality
social mirror
Students
Transnationalism
Undocumented Immigrants
Youth
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Summary:Mass migration is the human face of globalization. Where immigrant workers are summoned, families and children will follow. The great global migration wave of the past generation has generated a powerful demographic echo. Nearly all the high-income countries of the world are experiencing substantial growth in their immigrant-origin student populations. Concurrently, globalization is placing new demands on education systems the world over. As a consequence, schooling systems are facing something they never faced before: educating large and growing numbers of immigrant-origin youth to greater levels of competence and skill at a time of economic upheaval and cultural malaise. This article reviews the basic scholarship in anthropology and allied fields with a focus on language, transnationalism, poverty, segregation, undocumented status, and racialization as they structure the academic pathways of immigrant-origin youth in a variety of destinations.
ISSN:0084-6570
1545-4290
DOI:10.1146/annurev-anthro-111009-115928