Immigrant Education and A Typology of Adaptation: Case Studies of New Arrival Students from Mainland China to Hong Kong,Used

Immigrant Education and A Typology of Adaptation: Case Studies of New Arrival Students from Mainland China to Hong Kong,Used

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This book tracks the wave of new immigrants from Mainland China to Hong Kong since late 1990s through the turn of the new century. Perceived as a social problem in Hong Kong, many of these arrivals are schoolage children who may have been brought up in a different culture and who come to Hong Kong for family reunion. This study sets out to explore the different adaptation pathways that the new arrival students have gone through, and to explain their academic success and failure. Using social capital and cultural capital as the key analytic concepts, the author argues that supportive networks with the institutional agents is necessary for the new arrival students to activate the capital they possess, and to accumulate further capital for assimilating or accommodating to the society and culture of Hong Kong. A typology of adaptation, namely Transitional Adaptation, Instrumental Adaptation, Accommodative Adaptation, Bicultural Adaptation and Marginality is constructed to delineate and capture the divergent experiences of the new arrival students, and the way their academic achievements are affected.

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