Academic Achievement of Legal Immigrants' Children: The Roles of Parents' Pre- and Postmigration Characteristics in Origin-Group Differences

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1543-1559

  Pong, Suet ling ^a,b   Landale, Nancy S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHILD; COGNITION; CULTURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY RELATIONS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LATIN AMERICA; PARENTING; PARENTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866146384     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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