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Illuminating the Immigrant Bargain: Multilingual Asian Immigrant and Asian American Families Cultivating Leadership Capabilities and Challenging Systemic Barriers
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Illuminating the Immigrant Bargain: Multilingual Asian Immigrant and Asian American Families Cultivating Leadership Capabilities and Challenging Systemic Barriers

Peggy A. Kong, Stephanie Smith Budhai, Xinwei Zhang, Anu Sachdev, Xiaoran Yu and Nino Dzotsenidze
Advancing Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Approaches to Multilingual Family-School Partnerships, pp 195-216
19 Sep 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666983302.ch-010

Abstract

Asian Americans
Multilingual Asian immigrant and Asian American families are one of the fastest growing populations living in a diverse and multifaceted society, yet stories regarding their engagement with their children’s schools have been overlooked (Coady, 2019). In fact, family involvement models such as the National Standards for Family-School Partnerships (National Parent Teacher Association, 2022) are grounded in White middle-class standards of family engagement. These models leave out the lived experiences of multilingual Asian immigrant and Asian American families, and thus, do not explicitly consider their unique and multidimensional cultural contexts. Multilingual Asian immigrant and Asian American families are often guided by the immigrant bargain as they adapt to the United States (US) context and support their children’s learning and social-emotional well-being. The immigrant bargain has been described as the sacrifice immigrant parents make as a result of leaving their home country to migrate to the United States in hopes of achieving a better education and future for their children and families (Smith, 2005; Louie, 2012). Within the multilingual Asian immigrant and Asian American literature, studies have examined how youth consider the immigrant bargain as a motivator and stressor for their educational success (Cherng & Liu, 2017). To our knowledge, there is a dearth of studies that examine how Asian immigrant and Asian American families communicate about race and ethnicity (known as racial socialization), and what factors impact this process.

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