Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth

The well-being and productivity of immigrant youth has become one of the most important global issues of our times as a result of mass migration and resettlement. In this unique volume, leading scholars from multiple nations and disciplines provide a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research on immigrant youth and delineate the most promising future directions for research on their success, suggesting implications for policy and interventions that will benefit host societies as well as immigrant youth. The contributors to Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth include many of the leading international experts on migration, acculturation, intergroup issues and immigrant youth development, with contributions from the fields of child development, demography, economics, education, immigrant mental health, social psychology and sociology. Contents
Introduction
1. Resources, strengths, and challenges for children in immigrant families in eight affluent countries
2. Better fortunes? Living arrangements and school enrolment of migrant youth in six western countries
3. Income poverty and income support for minority and immigrant households with children in rich countries
4. Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children
5. Positive immigrant youth adaptation in context: developmental, acculturation and social psychological perspectives
6. Understanding the immigrant paradox in youth: developmental and contextual considerations
7. The contributions of youth to immigrant families
8. Specifying social psychological adaptation of immigrant youth: social identity, intergroup attitudes and intergroup interactions
9. Understanding ethnic minority identity
1. Muslim, American, and immigrant: integration despite challenges
11. Autonomous-related self and competence: the potential of immigrant youth
12. Thriving among immigrant youth: theoretical and empirical bases of positive development
13. The role of developmental transitions in psychosocial competence: a comparison of native and immigrant young people in Germany
14. Conceptualizing the school acculturative context: school, classroom, and the immigrant student
15. Peer relations in multicultural school
16. Latino education in the United States: immigration, language, and achievement
17. Promoting the well-being of immigrant youth: a framework for comparing outcomes and policies.

Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Ann S. Masten, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Edited by: Karmela Liebkind, University of Helsinki, Finland
Edited by: Donald J. Hernandez, Hunter College, City University of New York