Table of Contents

Introduction; 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.

Reviews

"While Transformations focuses on Mexicans in California, the authors place their study in a much wider context - the global context. This perspective is on of the book's most insightful features... The information presented provokes educators, researchers and policymakers to take a hard look at how we are educating immigrant children." - Harvard Educational Review