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Immigration, Diversity, and Student Journeys to Higher Education, 2nd edition

Immigration, Diversity, and Student Journeys to Higher Education, 2nd edition

Guarnaccia, Peter J.

Paperback

Series: Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis, Book 20

General Education

ISBN10: 1636678432
ISBN13: 9781636678436
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Nov 11 2024
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education presents an in-depth understanding of how immigrant students at a major public research university balanced keeping their family cultures alive and learning U.S. culture to get to college. A revitalized anthropological understanding of acculturation provides the theoretical framework for the book. The text builds its analysis using extensive quotes from the 160 immigrant students who participated in the 21 focus groups that form the core of this study. The students' families come from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America, and reflect a wide diversity of experiences and insights into how these students successfully pursued higher education. A key theme of the book is the immigrant bargain, where students repay their parents' hard work and migration sacrifices by excelling in school. A large majority of the parents made clear that a major motivation for immigrating was so their children could have better educational opportunities; these parents had the original dreams for their children. Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education examines the similarities and differences across this diverse group of students, ending with a series of recommendations about how to improve acculturation research and how to facilitate immigrant students' journeys to educational success.

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