User:Ericklemusss/Education of immigrants in the United States

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Immigrant populations are about 1% more female than male. However, the relationship between gender and nativity is not significant overall.

There are no substantial differences between Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Multi-racial people in each given generation on educational performance. However, there are massive differences among Black immigrants, where Black women tend to perform much better than Black men in school for each successive generation.

Race and immigrant education

Some researchers have found that marriage between immigrants of different races lead to different levels of formal education. Immigrants from Latin America who get married to those of a different race tend to have a higher level of formal education, but the reverse is true for immigrants of Asian descent.

Latin American immigrants tend to face specific barriers in educational attainment due to the trends of immigration that push Latinos to cities with high poverty, legal violence, and separation from other children. Some of these barriers are seen throughout migrant education. Latin American immigrants tend to then be placed into English as a Second Language (ESL) programs, where ESL students are separated from their peers to learn English. ESL students, on average, tend to have lower incomes than their peers and are less likely to attend four-year universities.

There are no substantial differences between Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Multi-racial people in each given generation on educational performance. However, there are massive differences among Black immigrants, where Black women tend to perform much better than Black men in school for each successive generation.

Immigrant integration

For children and young adults, participation in the American public school system is a significant contributor to integration. Education plays a strong role in nationhood, where a sense of unity emerges among student cohorts who go through an education system together. For young migrant populations, public education serves as one of the strongest mechanisms of integration as the American education system largely focuses on "Americanization", the development of a national consciousness. Some schools are affected more than others by immigration policy, specifically Title I schools. Studies have shown that the higher the percentage of white students, the more difficult integration is for immigrants as they face more discrimination and hostility. The study by the American Education Research Journal cites the current policy on immigration enforcement as a major source of this discord.