{"id":281,"date":"2008-10-01T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=281"},"modified":"2008-10-01T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:21:24","slug":"sociologists-on-immigrant-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/10\/01\/sociologists-on-immigrant-children\/","title":{"rendered":"sociologists on immigrant children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/09\/080930094651.htm\">Science Daily<\/a> reports today on a new study from sociologists Mark Levels, Jaap Dronkers and Gerbert Kraaykamp, which suggests that factors like country of origin, destination country, and qualities of immigrant communities play a significant role in educational outcomes for immigrant children. \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research, which looked at the mathematical literacy scores of thousands of 15-year-old immigrants to 13 Western nations from 35 different native countries, indicates that economic development and political conditions in an immigrant&#8217;s home country impact the child&#8217;s academic success in his or her destination country. Counter-intuitively, immigrant children from countries with lower levels of economic development have better scholastic performance than comparable children who emigrate from countries with higher levels of economic development.<\/p>\n<p>Children of immigrants from politically unstable countries have poorer scholastic performance compared to other immigrant children. &#8220;Adult political immigrants are known to face serious negative consequences that can be related to the political situations in their origin countries,&#8221; said sociologist Mark Levels, junior researcher in the Department of Sociology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. &#8220;We found that these consequences carry across generations to affect their children&#8217;s educational chances as well. Our findings therefore have urgent implications in countries that receive a large number of these immigrants.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Levels, one of the primary investigators told Science Daily,\u00a0&#8220;Specific educational programs designed to counter the negative effects of political migration may be essential to ensure that the children of politically motivated immigrants achieve their full potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2008\/09\/080930094651.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Daily reports today on a new study from sociologists Mark Levels, Jaap Dronkers and Gerbert Kraaykamp, which suggests that factors like country of origin, destination country, and qualities of immigrant communities play a significant role in educational outcomes for immigrant children. \u00a0 The research, which looked at the mathematical literacy scores of thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[34,89,38],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-education","tag-immigration","tag-methods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}