Work

Educating Across Borders: The Well-Being of Students from Mexican Immigrant Families in the United States and in Mexico

Year: 2022

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Often lost in the deluge of policy opinions regarding international migration management is the development and well-being of children and youth who in one way or another are affected by their parents’ decisions to leave communities of origin in Mexico for opportunities in the United States. The experiences of these students are diverse. Some migrate at an early age with their parents, others take on solitary migratory journeys during adolescence, and yet others cross the border over and again, leading truly transnational lives. Most, however, are affected by migration less directly, through the international migration experiences of their parents and/or other relatives (resulting, among other things, in stresses associated with family separation).

Source: IMISCOE research series

Parent work: Migration Between Mexico and the United States: IMISCOE Regional Reader

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77810-1_3

Authors: Silvia Giorguli, Bryant Jensen, Frank Bean, Susan Brown, Adam Sawyer, Víctor Zúñiga