Latino Immigrant Educational Experiences Across the Life Course: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Currently, Latinos are the largest and one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States. It is projected that by 2050 a third of all school children in the US will themselves be immigrants or have at least one immigrant parent. While current research has documented the increased racial hostility and blocked educational opportunities Latino immigrants encounter in the US, our knowledge remains incomplete. In this symposium, we consider Latino immigrant educational experiences across the life course from multiple disciplines and theoretical orientations including sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, and education policy. We investigate how our diverse approaches can enrich our understanding of the heterogeneous Latino immigrant educational experience and generate synthesis among researchers to aid policy and practice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hispanic Research Issues

Chair

• Megan Shoji, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc

Papers

• The Complex Logics of Parenting in the United States: The Case of Mexican Immigrant Families - David Enrique Rangel, Brown University; Megan Shoji, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc

• "We Are Smart": Latino Youth Leveraging High School Achievement Toward Civic Inclusion in Nashville, Tennessee - Andrea Flores, Brown University

• "Education, Not Deportation": The Graduate School Experiences of Undocumented Doctoral, Medical, and Law School Students - Kevin Escudero, Brown University

• The Failure of a Dream: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Television News Coverage of the DREAM Act of 2010 - Ruth María Lopez, University of Houston

Discussant

• Roberto G. Gonzales, Harvard University