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Afterword: New directions in research with immigrant families and their children
Author(s) -
SuárezOrozco Carola,
Carhill Avary
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.224
Subject(s) - immigration , ethnic group , race (biology) , psychology , field (mathematics) , documentation , developmental psychology , sociology , gender studies , social psychology , anthropology , political science , mathematics , computer science , pure mathematics , law , programming language
Although migration is fundamentally a family affair, the family, as a unit of analysis, has been understudied both by scholars of migration and by developmental psychologists. Researchers have often struggled to conceptualize immigrant children, adolescents, and their families, all too often giving way to pathologizing them, ignoring generational and ethnic distinctions among immigrant groups, stereotyping immigrants as “problem” or (conversely) “model” minorities, and overlooking the complexity of race, gender, documentation, and language in their lives. In addition, contexts other than the family remain understudied. In this afterword, the authors examine these issues, the contributions of the chapters in this volume to understanding them, and their implications for research and theory within the field of developmental science. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.