Educational Experiences of Children in the Migrant Stream: Ecological Factors Necessary for Academic Success
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: This year marks the 40 th anniversary of the Title I -Part C, migrant education programs in Ohio.Limited research has been conducted on the migrant educational experience and the ecological factors for academic success.The present life history study investigated educational experiences, family culture, and community connections of six adult Latinos/as who followed the migrant stream with their parents to obtain qualifying agricultural work.Interviews, data collection, and audio-recording were utilized for this research.Based on the qualitative data analysis, a conceptual model was created to illustrate how academic success was dependent on students' nurturing educational experiences throughout their school-age years.The conceptual model also shows how social capital and strong familial sociocentric values were extremely important to student performance.These themes resulted in a set of culturally proficient based recommendations for leaders.iv This dissertation is dedicated to God who has blessed me with so much.God blessed with my wife Alma and my children Joey and Antonio who loved and supported me unconditionally throughout my doctoral experience.God blessed me with my father, "Jose grande" who was my moral compass and provided me valuable consejos which I now pass along to my children.and God blessed me with my mother, Maudelia Salinas, who died one year before the completion of this dissertation… Gracias mami.v of these new workers are recent arrivals from Mexico and Central America who often enter the United States illegally.The participants for this study will be delimited to 6 Latino adults fromNorthwest Ohio who were American-born, or who became American citizens during their school-age years.Although an undocumented child has a right to a free public education (Plyler v. Doe, 1982), this right does not apply to institutions of higher education.Therefore, a graduating high school student who is not a legal resident of this country and does not possess a Social Security number can not apply for the federal grants and loans necessary to afford the high tuition costs at most U.S. colleges or universities.These and other factors associated with the undocumented experience are important to the literature and would make a great study.However, for this study I will be analyzing the choices the participants made against the choices the participants had while in school.Therefore, it is imperative for this study that the participants' choice to have gone to college during their experience in the public school system was not inhibited by restrictive federal policies similar to those currently affecting the undocumented population.For this reason I have decided to limit my participant group to include only U.S. born individuals who lived the migrant experience as children.
Author: José Salinas
Institution: Bowling Green State University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W56612090