Suárez-Orozco Carola, Carhill Avary
New York University, New York, USA.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2008 Fall;2008(121):87-104. doi: 10.1002/cd.224.
Although migration is fundamentally a family affair, the family, as a unit of analysis, has been understudied both by scholars of migration and by developmental psychologists. Researchers have often struggled to conceptualize immigrant children, adolescents, and their families, all too often giving way to pathologizing them, ignoring generational and ethnic distinctions among immigrant groups, stereotyping immigrants as "problem" or (conversely) "model" minorities, and overlooking the complexity of race, gender, documentation, and language in their lives. In addition, contexts other than the family remain understudied. In this afterword, the authors examine these issues, the contributions of the chapters in this volume to understanding them, and their implications for research and theory within the field of developmental science.
尽管移民本质上是家庭事务，但作为一个分析单位，家庭在移民学者和发展心理学家的研究中都未得到充分关注。研究人员常常难以对移民儿童、青少年及其家庭进行概念化理解，往往将他们病态化，忽视移民群体之间的代际和种族差异，将移民刻板地视为“问题”少数群体或（相反地）“模范”少数群体，并且忽视他们生活中种族、性别、证件和语言的复杂性。此外，家庭之外的背景因素也仍未得到充分研究。在这篇后记中，作者们审视了这些问题、本卷各章节对理解这些问题的贡献以及它们对发展科学领域内研究和理论的启示。
