Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents

by Carola Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco

Book Overview

In virtually all advanced industrialized countries, the explosive topic of immigration has engendered heated argument, political anger, cultural anxieties and blatant racism. In the United States,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804725519
• ISBN13: 9780804725514
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Empirical survey

As a tutor for Mexican immigrant students in high school, I bought this book expecting to find the answer to a seemingly straight, yet complex, question: why are so many Hispanic students dropping out of high school recently in the United States? Though the authors don't give any suggestion whatsoever to those working with Hispanic students at risk of dropping out, their research disabuses readers of many widely held miscomceptions as that that argues that Hispanics' cultural background is responsible for their failure in schools.