Trans-formations : immigration, family life, and achievement motivation among Latino adolescents /

Trans-formations : immigration, family life, and achievement motivation among Latino adolescents /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Suárez-Orozco, Carola, 1957-
Imprint:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.
Description:	xix, 266 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexican American teenagers -- California. Mexican American teenagers. Achievement motivation in youth -- California. Teenagers -- Mexico. Achievement motivation in youth -- Mexico. Teenage immigrants -- California. Teenage immigrants -- United States. Achievement motivation in youth. Emigration and immigration. Mexican American teenagers. Teenage immigrants. Teenagers. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration. California. Mexico. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2391902

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Varying Form of Title:	Transformations
Other authors / contributors:	Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., 1956-
ISBN:	0804725500 (acid-free paper) 0804725519 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Civilization's New Discontent: Immigrants and Refugees in a Post-Utopian Moment
2. Uncertain Journeys: Latinos in the United States
3. Between Paradoxes
4. Family and Peers
5. Achievement Motivation and Attitudes Toward School
6. Anxious Neighbors
Epilogue: The Need for Strangers: Proposition 187 and the Immigration Malaise
Appendix: Statistical Tables.