Contributors

Preface

Introduction
Cynthia García Coll and Amy Kerivan Marks

I. Is There an "Immigrant Paradox"?

Children in Immigrant Families: Demography, Policy, and Evidence for the Immigrant Paradox
Donald J. Hernandez, Nancy A. Denton, Suzanne Macartney, and Victoria L. Blanchard

Historical Origins of the Immigrant Paradox for Mexican American Students: The Cultural Integration Hypothesis
Raymond Buriel

Studying the Immigrant Paradox in the Mexican-Origin Population
Robert Crosnoe

II. Behavior and Health Outcomes Across Generations

Behavioral Outcomes in Early Childhood: Immigrant Paradox or Disadvantage?
Kristen Turney and Grace Kao

Exploring the Immigrant Paradox in Adolescent Sexuality: An Ecological Perspective
Marcela Raffaelli, Hyeyoung Kang, and Tristan Guarini

Immigrant Generational Status and Delinquency in Adolescence: Segmented Assimilation and Racial–Ethnic Differences
Hoan N. Bui

III. Family and Community Factors Affecting Academic Outcomes

Bilingualism and Academic Achievement: Does Generation Status Make a Difference?
Wen-Jui Han

An Immigrant Advantage in the Early School Trajectories of Latino Preschoolers From Low-Income Immigrant Families
Natalia Palacios

Student Engagement, School Climate, and Academic Achievement of Immigrants' Children
Suet-ling Pong and Kristina L. Zeiser

Immigrant Gateway Communities: Does Immigrant Student Achievement Vary by Location?
Dylan Conger and Meghan Salas Atwell

In Spite of the Odds: Undocumented Immigrant Youth, School Networks, and College Success
Roberto G. Gonzales

Immigrant Youth in Postsecondary Education
Lingxin Hao and Yingyi Ma

IV. Concluding Remarks

The Intersection of Aspirations and Resources in the Development of Children From Immigrant Families
Andrew J. Fuligni

Index

About the Editors

About the Author

Cynthia García Coll, PhD, is the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Education, Psychology and Pediatrics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She has published on the sociocultural and biological influences on child development with particular emphasis on at-risk and minority populations. She has been on the editorial boards of many academic journals, including Child Development, Development and Psychopathology, Infant Behavior and Development, and Infancy and Human Development and is the current editor of Developmental Psychology. She was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Network's "Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood" from 1994 to 2002.

Dr. García Coll has coedited several books: The Psychosocial Development of Puerto Rican Women; Puerto Rican Women and Children: Issues in Health, Growth and Development; Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers; and Nature and Nurture: The Complex Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Human Behavior and Development.

She is a fellow of APA. Presently, her scholarship is largely focused on the role of race and ethnicity in children's development, specifically, the role of culture, acculturation, and different sources of oppression (i.e., poverty, racism, and discrimination) in shaping human development.

Amy Kerivan Marks, PhD, is an assistant professor and the director of graduate and undergraduate studies in psychology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is coauthor with Cynthia García Coll of the book Immigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood, and has published numerous other edited and peer-reviewed works on the acculturation, ethnic identities, and development of immigrant youth.

Her doctoral work on the measurement of ethnic identities was supported by a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, and her current work is supported by the W. T. Grant and Jacobs Foundations.

Dr. Marks was recently awarded a Jacobs Foundation Young Scholar Award for her research with immigrant youth. Her present research is focused on understanding person–context interactions in the development of ethnically and racially diverse children and adolescents.

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