"To Trust in My Root and to Take That to Go Forward": Supporting College Access for Immigrant Youth in the Global City

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-296

  Jaffe Walter, Reva ^a   Lee, Stacey J ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

College access; English language learners; Globalization; Immigrant students; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051697975     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: 15481492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01132.x     Document Type: Article

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