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Title: Immigrant Youth: Some Implications for Schools (Information Resource)
Description: Different motives propel migration (e.g., better opportunities for work and education, political asylum; quality of life). At this time, estimates indicate that the immigrant population in the U.S. is about 41 million (13% of the 313.9 million U.S. population). It is estimated that 11.5 million came unauthorized.
Some immigrants are first generation and recently arrived; those born in the U.S. of at least one immigrant parent are described as second generation. In 2012, 17.4 million children under age 18 lived at home in the U.S. with at least one immigrant parent (25% of the 70.2 million children under age 18 in the U.S.). Second-generation children accounted for 88% (15.2 million) of all children with immigrant parents. Almost 9.6 million have immigrant parents whose family income is Access at: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/immig.pdf 91kb, 8pp
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