Education In The New Latino Diaspora: Policy And The Politics Of Identity (Sociocultural Studies In Educational Policy Formation And Appropriation, V. 2)

Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity (Sociocultural Studies in Educational Policy Formation and Appropriation, V. 2)

The authors describe a new demographic phenomenon: the settlement of Latino families in areas of the United States where previously there has been little Latino presence.This New Latino Diaspora places pressures on host communities, both to develop conceptualizations of Latino newcomers and to provide needed services.These pressures are particularly felt in schools; in some New Latino Diaspora locations the percentage of Latino students in local public schools has risen from zero to 30 or even 50 percent in less than a decade.Latino newcomers, of course, bring their own language and their own cultural conceptions of parenting, education,inter-ethnic relations and the like.