Seminar Series: Family Migration Patterns: Maternal Age at Arrival & Children's Cognitive & Academic Performance
Jennifer Glick, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University
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Oct 22, 2009 from 12:15 pm to 01:15 pm |
| Where | 1101 Art-Sociology Building |
| Contact Name | Tiffany Pittman |
| Contact Phone | 301-405-6403 |
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About the talk
The growth of immigration to the United States has focused attention on the growing proportion of children living in immigrant families and the potential for these children to face different opportunities and outcomes than their peers in native families. Although research has identified several features of immigration that are associated with differential socioeconomic success in the United States among immigrants, fewer studies consider the importance of these characteristics for differentiating outcomes among immigrants’ children. Yet parental migration experiences are likely to shape the home, school and neighborhood environments for children in the United States. This presentation takes a look at the role of parent’s age at migration for understanding cognitive development among young children and subsequent academic trajectories among school age children. The results suggest that parenting practices with very young children vary considerably by mother’s own age at arrival. There are fewer distinctions in parental-school involvement by parental age at arrival. The presentation concludes with suggestions for incorporating both parental migration experiences and parental interactions with social institutions in the receiving society to understand variations in outcomes within the second generation.
About the Speaker
Jennifer E. Glick is Associate Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on immigrant adaptation and family survival strategies in receiving contexts. This research has examined the educational, labor market and family formation trajectories of immigrants and their children in the United States. She is co-author of, Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs and Neighborhoods. More recent projects focus on the importance of the family migration context for understanding children’s early cognitive development and school readiness. Other recent research explores the stability of living arrangements among immigrants in the United States.
Website: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/258077