Social and Cultural Contexts of Education and Mental Health: Chinese Migrant Families and Immigrant Families

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Migration is a global phenomenon with millions of people leaving their home country or region to pursue a “better life” elsewhere. In China, without household registration in the receiving localities, rural-to-urban migrant children olack access to local educational resources and health care services. Externally, Chinese immigrant parents in the US. are often “invisible” in school. The proposed symposium aims to bring together four paper presentations on different aspects of adjustment among Chinese migrant families with internal migration experience and Chinese immigrant families with international migration experience. By investigating the contextual factors at the individual, family, school, community, and societal levels, the symposium contributes to a holistic understanding of the complexity that (im)migration has brought to Chinese migrant and immigrant families.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Jun Wang, Texas A&M University

Papers

• Attachment and Developmental Trajectories of Chinese Migrant and Non-Migrant Urban Children's Aggressive Behavior - Chen Chen, Nanjing Normal University; Xinmei Gong, Nanjing Normal University

• A Longitudinal Person-Centered Perspective on Academic Self-Concept Among Chinese Migrant Children: Links to Parenting Styles and Achievement - Lina Geng, Nanjing XiaoZhuang University; Chen Chen, Nanjing Normal University

• Acculturation and Educational Involvement Among Chinese Immigrant Parents: The Mediating Role of Emotional Well-Being - Xinwei Zhang, Yale University; Peggy A. Kong, Drexel University; Chen Chen, Nanjing Normal University

• Leaning the Rules: Chinese Immigrant Parents' Involvement During Children's Kindergarten Transition - Peggy A. Kong, Drexel University; Xinwei Zhang, Yale University; Anu Sachdev, Lehigh University; Xiaoran Yu, Citrus College

Discussant

• Damian Wyman, Concordia University