Immigrant and migrant education: Recent print books
This guide is for those beginning research on the education of immigrants and migrants anywhere in the world, including refugees.
Recent print books
- Aspirations and challenges for undocumented student success: critical readings and testimonios by Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. (Ed.); Sharon Velarde Pierce (Ed.)Publication Date: 2025Aspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success.
- Knowing silence: how children talk about immigration status in school by Ariana Mangual FigueroaPublication Date: 2024There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that children are largely unaware of their immigration status and its implications. In Knowing Silence, Ariana Mangual Figueroa challenges this "myth of ignorance." By listening carefully to both the speech and significant silences of six Latina students from mixed-immigration-status families, from elementary school into middle school and beyond, she reveals the complex ways young people understand and negotiate immigration status and its impact on their lives.
- Educating African immigrant youth: schooling and civic engagement in K-12 schools by Vaughn W. M. Watson (Ed.); Michelle G. Knight-Manuel (Ed.); Patriann Smith (Ed.); Awad Ibrahim (Foreword)Publication Date: 2024This book illuminates emerging perspectives and possibilities of the vibrant schooling and civic lives of Black African youth and communities in the United States, Canada, and globally. Chapters present key research on how to develop and enact teaching methodologies and research approaches that support Black African immigrant and refugee students.
- Supporting college students of immigrant origin: new insights from research, policy, and practice by Blake R. Silver (Ed.); Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron (Ed.)Publication Date: 2024Over 5 million college students in the United States - nearly one-in-three students currently enrolled - are of immigrant origin, meaning they are either the children of immigrant parents or guardians and/or immigrants themselves. These students accounted for almost 60% of the growth in higher education enrolment in the 21st century. Nevertheless, there is very little research dedicated to this student population's specific experiences of postsecondary education, with similar absences discernible within the realms of higher education policy and practice. Although college campuses are making important progress in building more inclusive spaces, conversations about climate and student care rarely account for the journeys of students of immigrant origin.
- Drawing deportation: art and resistance among immigrant children by Silvia Rodriguez VegaPublication Date: 2023Illustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging Young immigrant children often do not have the words to express how their lives are shaped by issues of immigration, legal status, and state-sanctioned violence. Yet they are able to communicate its effects on them using art.
- The Latinization of indigenous students : erasing identity and restricting opportunity at school by Rebecca A. Campbell-MontalvoPublication Date: 2023Based upon research in rural central Florida, The Latinization of Indigenous Students examines how schools perceive and process demographic information, including how those perceptions may erase Indigeneity and impact resource access. Based on multiyear fieldwork, Campbell-Montalvo argues that languages and racial identities of Indigenous Latinx students and families may be re-formed by schools, erasing Indigeneity.
- Making Americans: stories of historic struggles, new ideas, and inspiration in immigrant education by Jessica LanderPublication Date: 2022A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students Setting out from her classroom, Jessica Lander takes the reader on a powerful and urgent journey to understand what it takes for immigrant students to become Americans.
- Restoring students' innate power: trauma-responsive strategies for teaching multilingual newcomers by Louise El YaafouriPublication Date: 2022This book explores the effects of trauma on newcomer students and presents stress-mitigating strategies that empower these multilingual students as they transition to a new environment. Diverse insights and experiences bring high-powered learning spaces to life. However, the cultural backgrounds of newcomer students and their families can be very different from the dominant norms of the new community, resulting in misalignments that constitute a persistent challenge.
- Creating a sense of belonging for immigrant and refugee students: strategies for K-12 educators by Mandy Manning; Leah Juelke; Sarahí Monterrey; Ivonne Orozco SahiPublication Date: 2022Written by award-winning state teachers of the year. Contains lesson plans and strategies that can be implemented immediately. Addresses a timely, growing topic of immigrants and refugees in K-12 classrooms.
- Teaching writing through the immigrant story by Heather Ostman (Ed.); Howard Tinberg (Ed.); Danizete Martínez (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Teaching Writing through the Immigrant Story explores the intersection between immigration and pedagogy via the narrative form. Embedded in the contexts of both student writing and student reading of literature chapters by scholars from four-year and two-year colleges and universities across the country, this book engages the topic of immigration within writing and literature courses as the site for extending, critiquing, and challenging assumptions about justice and equity while deepening students' sense of ethics and humanity.
- Higher education in the era of migration, displacement and internationalization by Khalid Arar, Yasar Kondakci, Bernhard Streitwieser and Anna SaitiPublication Date: 2022This book draws from the voices of students and those who educate them to reveal the unique issues faced in the quest to access higher education in order to provide a greater understanding of the complex phenomenon of international migration and its intersection with higher education. Higher Education in the Era of Migration, Displacement and Internationalization examines how higher education institutions globally can improve to meet the needs of displaced people, refugees, migrants, and international students.
- Refugee high: coming of age in America by Elly FishmanPublication Date: 2021Refugee High is a riveting chronicle of the 2017-8 school year at Sullivan High, a time when anti-immigrant rhetoric was at its height in the White House. Even as we follow teachers and administrators grappling with the everyday challenges facing many urban schools, we witness the complicated circumstances and unique education needs of refugee and immigrant children: Alejandro may be deported just days before he is scheduled to graduate; Shahina narrowly escapes an arranged marriage; and Belenge encounters gang turf wars he doesn't understand. Equal parts heartbreaking and inspiring, Refugee High raises vital questions about the priorities and values of a public school and offers an eye-opening and captivating window into the present-day American immigration and education systems.
- Educating newcomers: K-12 public schooling for undocumented and asylum-seeking children in the United States by Shelly Culbertson; Julia H. Kaufman; Jenna W. Kramer; Brian PhillipsPublication Date: 2021By U.S. law, states must provide education to all children, regardless of immigration status. But policymakers lack information needed to support the education of undocumented and asylum-seeking children, whose numbers have been growing. This report models the numbers of such children by state, reviews the federal and state policy landscapes for their education, and provides case studies of how schools are managing education for them.
- Schools under siege: the impact of immigration enforcement on educational equity by Patricia Gándara (Ed.); Jongyeon Ee (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Using original qualitative and quantitative data, Schools Under Siege confronts the many ways, direct and indirect, in which US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies and practices disrupt education. The book explores the impact of these policies not only on the six-million-plus K-12 students in the US at risk for being directly affected by enforcement, but also the wide-ranging consequences for their classmates, educators, and communities.
- Writing accomplices with student immigrant rights organizers by Glenn HutchinsonPublication Date: 2021Argues for a pedagogical shift in centering the public writing classroom more on students' work as organizers and rhetoricians, pointing to a new role for the writing teacher in changing anti-immigrant and white supremacist laws and policies.
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