Immigrant Families in Contemporary Society

Edited by Jennifer E. Lansford, PhD, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, USA; Kirby Deater-Deckard, PhD, Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA and Marc H. Bornstein, PhD, Child and Family Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA

Bornstein, Deater-Deckard, Lansford, Introduction. Part 1. Foundations and Perspectives. Hernandez, Denton, Macartney, Family Circumstances of Children in Immigrant Families: Looking to the Future of America. Mendoza, Javier, Burgos, Health of Children in Immigrant Families. Phinney, Ong, Ethnic Identity Development in Immigrant Families. Berry, Acculturation Strategies and Adaptation. Tyyskä, Immigrant Families in Sociology. Kaushal, Reimers, How Economists Have Studied the Immigrant Family. Part 2. Illustrations of Diversity in Family Processes. Bornstein, Cote, Knowledge of Child Development and Family Interactions among Immigrants to America: Perspectives from Developmental Science. Chase-Lansdale, D'Angelo, Palacios, A Multidisciplinary Perspective on the Development of Young Children in Immigrant Families. Bradley, McKelvey, Managing the Differences Within: Immigration and Early Education in the United States. Waldfogel, Lahaie, The Role of Preschool and After-School Policies in Improving the School Achievement of Immigrants. Ross-Sheriff, Tirmazi, Ross-Sheriff, Cultural and Religious Contexts of Parenting by Immigrant South Asian Muslim Mothers. Wong, Immigration, Globalization, and the Chinese American Family. Part 3. Immigrant Families in Social Contexts. A.J. Fuligni, A.S.Fuligni, Immigrant Families and the Educational Development of Their Children. Updegraff, Crouter, Umaña-Taylor, Cansler, Work-family Linkages in the Lives of Families of Mexican Origin. Gonzales, Dumka, Mauricio, Germán, Building Bridges: Strategies to Promote Academic and Psychological Resilience for Adolescents of Mexican Origin. Coleman, The Role of the Law in Relationships within Immigrant Families: Traditional Parenting Practices in Conflict with American Concepts of Maltreatmen. Deater-Deckard, Bornstein, Lansford, Closing Thoughts. Suarez-Orozco, Afterword: Reflections on Research with Immigrant Families.