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F. Michelle Bringas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While little research has been conducted on Asian undocumented students in higher education, it was the powerful story of an Asian undocumented high school student, Tereza Lee, that inspired Senator Richard Durbin to co-author immigration legislation known as the 2001 DREAM Act. Tereza's story represents an important counter-story to what many…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, High School Students, Immigration, Legislators
Chien, Ming-Tso – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A large percentage of the international secondary students in the United States come from Asian countries. Their enrollments are closely connected to the cultural, curricular, and extracurricular diversity of their American schools. Despite their contribution, stereotypical depictions of these students and deficit-informed research still abound in…
Descriptors: Socialization, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, High School Students
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Aaron Teo – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2022
Australia's colonial past and subsequent propagation of the White Australia policy in the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 has meant that 'Whiteness' remains central to the national imaginary. Consequently, racial-colonial discourses axiomatically regulate scholarly and societal understandings of racial minorities through two unique but…
Descriptors: Asians, Critical Race Theory, Immigration, Public Policy
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Peck, Carla L. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2010
This article explores the relationship between students' ethnic identities and their ascriptions of historical significance to moments in Canada's past. Twenty-six grade 12 students living in an ethnically diverse urban centre in British Columbia, Canada participated. Phenomenographic research methods were followed, with a range of data informing…
Descriptors: Research Design, Ethnicity, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
Sayani, Anish – Online Submission, 2010
This study is a response to a growing disquietude in many schools in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia that there is "something wrong" with South Asian boys. During the past twenty years, approximately 100 South Asian young men have been killed as a result of criminal violence (Ministry Report, 2006), with these murder numbers…
Descriptors: Asians, Student Attitudes, Academic Failure, Academic Achievement
Farrell, Thomas S. C., Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2006
The Language Teacher Research Series aims to connect research and practice by highlighting the insights that teachers themselves describe after examining their own practices. This first volume of the five-volume series presents research conducted by language teachers at all levels, from high school English teachers to English language teacher…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Researchers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning