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Publication Date: 2014
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Newcomer Immigrant Students Reinventing Academic Lives across National Borders
Oikonomidoy, Eleni
Multicultural Perspectives, v16 n3 p141-147 2014
Relocation across national borders poses unique challenges and possibilities to newcomer immigrant students who enter diverse urban high schools. Based on focus group data with 27 newcomer students, in this article the author attends to the ways in which these students begin to counteract the challenges that relocation poses for them by recognizing the benefits of their new lives and envisioning routes to future academic/professional lives that transcend cultural, structural, and spatial boundaries. The author concludes with the implications of the analysis for educational theory and practice.
Descriptors: Immigrants, Urban Schools, Relocation, Focus Groups, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Student Adjustment, Acculturation, Student Experience, Interviews, English Language Learners, Cultural Pluralism, Social Attitudes, Friendship, Academic Achievement, Youth Opportunities, Participant Characteristics, High School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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