Understanding Chinese Immigrant Parents' Academic Expectations and Involvement in School Through a Lens of AsianCrit

• In Event: 47.095 - MTCC Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: 47.095-2 - Expanding Scholarly Discourses on Family Engagement

Abstract

This paper examines Chinese immigrant parents’ academic expectations and involvement in school through a lens of Asian Critical Theory (AsianCrit). Drawing on interview data from a larger study of Chinese immigrant families’ experiences in schooling communities with growing Asian student populations, we critically examine parents’ narratives and perspectives to disrupt the monolithic representations of Chinese immigrant parents in the U.S. and to interrogate the systems of inequalities in education which shaped their experiences. Our analysis indicates that racism, racialized discourses, and systemic inequalities complexly and consequentially shape the Chinese immigrant parents’ academic expectations for their children and their own experiences with U.S. schools.

Authors

• Kongji Qin, New York University

• Soria Elizabeth Colomer, Oregon State University

• Linyu Yu, University of South Florida

• Colin Cole, Oregon State University