"To Trust in My Root and to Take That to Go Forward"

Supporting College Access for Immigrant Youth in the Global City

Bibliographic Data

ID2280503
AuthorsReva Jaffe-Walter (0000-0003-3581-6512, The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author), Stacey J Lee (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume42
Issue3
Pages281-296
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01132.x
OpenAlexW1952116480
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited33

Increasing numbers of immigrant youth are coming of age within global cities that are characterized by growing inequalities and few opportunities for social mobility. These youth face numerous educational obstacles that complicate college and labor market access. This article draws from an ethnographic study of public high schools serving low-income, recently arrived immigrant students and explores how the schools provide students with the academic skills and social capital to support college going. It considers how the schools attempt to create new understandings and expectations of the educational possibilities available to low income immigrant students, thus creating a social imaginary that resists the racialized hierarchies of the global city. [immigrant students, English-language learners, college access, social capital, globalization]

Cultural capital · Economic growth · Economics · Educational inequality · Ethnography · Face (sociological concept · Globalization · Immigration · Inequality · Political science · Social capital · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Education Systems and Policy · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Research Studies · Law

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