Helping young refugees and immigrants succeed
Subtitle: public policy, aid, and education
By: edited by Gerhard Sonnert and Gerald Holton.
Contributors: Sonnert, Gerhard, 1957-; Holton, Gerald James.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780230621961
Subjects: Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; Children of immigrants -- Education -- Social Conditions -- United States; Social work with immigrants -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Description: In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and cultural influences on the young newcomers' lives as well as reports by practitioners in major aid organizations about the concrete work that their organizations have been carrying out.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.