From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families

by Donald J. Hernandez and Evan Charney

Immigrant children and youth are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country. However, relevant public policy is shaped less by informed discussion than by politicized contention over welfare reform and immigration limits.

From Generation to Generation explores what we know about the development of white, black, Hispanic, and Asian children and youth from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309065615
• ISBN13: 9780309065610
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"