Educational Meaning Making and Language Learning
Understanding the Educational Incorporation of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Latinx Youth Workers in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2328526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie L Canizale (0000-0003-3438-8878, University of California at Merced, Merced, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 175-190 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038040721996004 |
| OpenAlex | W3130853880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 64 |
Immigration scholars agree that educational attainment is essential for the success of immigrant youth in U.S. society and functions as a key indicator of how youth will fare in their transition into adulthood. Research warns of downward or stagnant mobility for people with lower levels of educational attainment. Yet much existing research takes for granted that immigrant youth have access to a normative parent-led household, K-12 schools, and community resources. Drawing on four years of ethnographic observations and interviews with undocumented Latinx young adults (ages 18 to 31) who arrived in Los Angeles, California, as unaccompanied youth, I examine the educational meaning making and language learning of Latinx individuals coming of age as workers without parents and legal status. Findings show that Latinx immigrant youth growing up outside of Western-normative parent-led households and K-12 schools and who remain tied to left-behind families across transnational geographies tend to equate education with English language learning. Education-as English language learning-is essential to sobrevivencia, or survival, during their transition to young adulthood as workers and transnational community participants
Educational attainment · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Immigration · Meaning (existential) · Normative · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology
A critical examination of policies and practices impacting the education of unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States
How Social Determinants of Health Shape Parental Concern and Teacher Recognition of Student Speech-Language Needs
I'd Like Something Better for Them”
Negotiating Language Ideologies in Adolescent Bilingual Peer Mentoring
Working‐class Latina/o youth navigating stratification and inequality
Reframing Higher Education for Refugees
Geographies of Belonging
Multilingualism and mismatching
Thresholds of liminality
Between obligations and aspirations
Si Mis Papás Estuvieran Aquí
Unraveling Complexities of Latino Racialization
A Matter of Time
Work Primacy and the Social Incorporation of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Latinx Youth in the United States
Lives in Limbo
New Destination Dreaming
Sacrificing Families
Equitable Access for Secondary English Learner Students
Blocked Paths, Uncertain Futures
"Because We Feel the Pressure and We Also Feel the Support"
The Living Arrangements of Children of Immigrants
"Parachute Kids" in Southern California
Beyond Damage-Centered Teacher Education
Fragmented Ties
Conflicting Ideologies of Mexican Immigrant English Across Levels of Schooling
Barrios to Burbs
Growing Up American
Strangers at the Gates
Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora
Migranthood
Becoming Transnational Youth Workers
Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State
Enduring Violence
Skills of the Unskilled
Gendered Transitions
Remaking the American Mainstream
Exploring the Borderlands
Soy de aquí, soy de allá
I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”
Critical transnational curriculum for immigrant and refugee students
Ages, Life Stages, and Generational Cohorts
Conceptualizing Simultaneity
We're building the community; it's a hub for democracy.”
Navigating “illegality”
Why we could not study
Here, without English, you are dead’
Why Do Immigrant Youths Who Never Enroll in U.S. Schools Matter? School Enrollment Among Mexicans and Non-Hispanic Whites
When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States
The New Second Generation
Organizing English Learner Instruction in New Immigrant Destinations
Speech or Silence
Teacher Placement Into Immigrant English Learner Classrooms
Undermatched? School-Based Linguistic Status, College Going, and the Immigrant Advantage
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition
The Precarious Position of Latino Immigrants in the United States
The "Warm Embrace" of a Newcomer School for Immigrant & Refugee Youth
Legal Consciousness of Undocumented Latinos
Support and setback
I am still close to my child
The Adaptation of the Immigrant Second Generation in America
Civic Inequalities? Immigrant Incorporation and Latina Mothers' Participation in Their Children's Schools
A Call for the Racialization of Immigration Studies
The Role of Emotions in the Construction of Masculinity
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
Flexible Coding of In-depth Interviews
A Social Capital Framework for the Study of Institutional Agents and Their Role in the Empowerment of Low-Status Students and Youth
Liberal Individualism and the Globalization of Education as a Human Right
Family Instability, School Context, and the Academic Careers of Adolescents
Parenting and Academic Achievement
Immigrant Selectivity Effects on Health, Labor Market, and Educational Outcomes
Divergent Destinies
Trapped in the Working Class? Prospects for the Intergenerational (Im)Mobility of Latino Youth
Work Primacy and the Social Incorporation of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Latinx Youth in the United States
Will the new second generation experience 'downward assimilation'? Segmented assimilation re-assessed
American individualism and the social incorporation of unaccompanied Guatemalan Maya young adults in Los Angeles
Ethnoracial patterns of schooling and work among adolescents
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |