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Peter J. Guarnaccia, Beth Powers - Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education

Av Peter J. Guarnaccia, Beth Powers

Del 20 i serien Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis

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Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education presents an in-depth understanding of how immigrant students at a major public research university balanced keeping their family cultures alive and learning U.S. culture to get to college. A revitalized anthropological understanding of acculturation provides the theoretical framework for the book. The text builds its analysis using extensive quotes from the 160 immigrant students who participated in the 21 focus groups that form the core of this study. The students’ families come from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America, and reflect a wide diversity of experiences and insights into how these students successfully pursued higher education. A key theme of the book is the "immigrant bargain," where students repay their parents’ hard work and migration sacrifices by excelling in school. A large majority of the parents made clear that a major motivation for immigrating was so their children could have better educational opportunities; these parents had the original dreams for their children. Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education examines the similarities and differences across this diverse group of students, ending with a series of recommendations about how to improve acculturation research and how to facilitate immigrant students’ journeys to educational success.
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Peter J. Guarnaccia is Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and Investigator at the Institute for Health at Rutgers University. He is co-editor of A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (2006).

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“Peter J. Guarnaccia’s book is an enjoyable and thoughtful examination of how cultural capital plays a role in the triumphant educational stories of immigrants. It is rare to read reflections of successful immigrants effectively navigating the educational U.S. system, but Guarnaccia’s book does exactly that. His book is a revelation of how culture anchors immigrants to persevere through educational challenges, from applying to college or being ‘seen’ as different in college. It touches on the intimate maintenance of cultural roots and how those roots embed values, routines and interpretation in everyday life that can become assets. His book opens a window into how culture imprints identity and meaning, weaving the scientific research evidence with the personal narratives and reflections of immigrant college students. At the same time, it reveals the author’s personal journey to better understand how our heritage gives us meaning and a lens to construe interpretations of the world. It also is an insightful exploration of how immigrant families’ dreams of social mobility get transferred into the DNA of their children. I very much enjoyed the descriptions of how the immigrant family clan supports educational aspirations, and his chapters offer perceptive views of how ‘cultural resources and optimism’ characterize immigrants, even in the face of adversity. Many will recognize themselves in these pages since it is a glorious collaboration of Guarnaccia’s storytelling with the lived experience of immigrant students. From this book, we can learn much about why immigrants do so well, and what we might need to learn from them.”—Margarita Alegria, Professor, Departments of Medicine & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Chief, Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

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