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"Explores migration between the US and Mexico and focuses on the differences among adolescent groups. The authors analyze four populations (native Mexican, native North Americans, first generation Latino immigrants, and second generation immigrants) and begin to unravel the difficult issues of cultural differences, social identity, family structure, and personal reasons for migrating"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Civilization's New Discontent: Immigrants and Refugees in a Post-Utopian Moment | 11 |
| 2 | Uncertain Journeys: Latinos in the United States | 47 |
| 3 | Between Paradoxes | 82 |
| 4 | Family and Peers | 111 |
| 5 | Achievement Motivation and Attitudes Toward School | 154 |
| 6 | Anxious Neighbors | 184 |
| Epilogue: The Need for Strangers: Proposition 187 and the Immigration Malaise | 191 | |
| Appendix: Statistical Tables | 203 | |
| Notes | 213 | |
| Bibliography | 237 | |
| Index | 259 |
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“While Transformations focuses on Mexicans in California, the authors place their study in a much wider context—the global context. This perspective is on of the book’s most insightful features. . . . The information presented provokes educators, researchers and policymakers to take a hard look at how we are educating immigrant children.”—Harvard Educational Review
"Explores migration between the US and Mexico and focuses on the differences among adolescent groups. The authors analyze four ...