The focus of this edited volume is on immigration's effect on schooling and the consequential aspect of illegal immigration's effect. To understand immigration (legal and undocumented) and K-16 education in Asia, Europe, and the US is to situate both within the broader context of globalization. This volume presents a timely and poignant analysis of the historical, legal, and demographic issues related to immigration with implications for education and its interdisciplinary processes. Arguments based on theories of globalization, socialization, naturalization, and xenophobia are provided as a conceptual foundation to assess such issues as access to and use of public services, e.g., public education, health, etc. Additional discussions center around the social, political, and economic forces that shape the social/cultural identities of this population as it tries to integrate into the larger society. The long-term causes and consequences of global immigration dynamics, and the multiple paths taken by immigrants, especially children, wishing to study are addressed. Summary discussion concludes the volume as well as projections with respect to links between immigration and key national security and international policy issues. Education can and must play an important role in a world that is more global and at the same time more local than it was almost twenty years ago. This volume intends to serve as an ambitious guide to approaching the issues of immigration and education more globally.

The focus of this edited volume is on immigration’s effect on schooling and the consequential aspect of illegal immigration’s effect. To understand immigration (legal and undocumented) and K-16 education in Asia, Europe, and the US is to situate both within the broader context of globalization. This volume presents a timely and poignant analysis of the historical, legal, and demographic issues related to immigration with implications for education and its interdisciplinary processes. Arguments based on theories of globalization, socialization, naturalization, and xenophobia are provided as a conceptual foundation to assess such issues as access to and use of public services, e.g., public education, health, etc. Additional discussions center around the social, political, and economic forces that shape the social/cultural identities of this population as it tries to integrate into the larger society. The long-term causes and consequences of global immigration dynamics, and the multiple paths taken by immigrants, especially children, wishing to study are addressed. Summary discussion concludes the volume as well as projections with respect to links between immigration and key national security and international policy issues. Education can and must play an important role in a world that is more global and at the same time more local than it was almost twenty years ago. This volume intends to serve as an ambitious guide to approaching the issues of immigration and education more globally.

List of Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Contextual Overview of Immigration and Schooling 1. The Need for Global Consciousness: Debate on Globalization, Migration, and Education; 2. Global Movements in Education and Their Impact on Diverse Students; 3. Strategic Identity Negotiation: Understanding the Complexities of Immigrant Youth in Schools; 4. Exclusionary Structure or Cultural Clash, Why do Immigrants Dropout? A Comparison of One Group in Two Different Countries; 5. Mapping Immigrant Student Attrition From Higher Education Through A Deictic Conceptual Model; 6. Hispanic Students and the Growth of the U.S. Public Schools: 1900-2008; Section II: Broader Issues and Trends 7. Being “Here” And “There”: The Impact of Globalization on Pakistani Students at Sawyer High School; 8. Tools for Discourse Analysis: Critiquing Newspaper Coverage of Arizona’s Immigrant Rights Controversy; 9. Developing Intercultural Competencies: Classroom Interventions in London Schools; 10. If We Are Good Citizens, They Will Recognize Us: The Effects of Immigration Status on the Educational Motivation of Undocumented Youth; 11. Immigrant Identities in Transnational Contexts: The Figured World of a New York City English Literacy and Civics; 12. From They are Japs To We Are Returnees: Crafting Identities Within and Across Transnational Contexts; 13. The Social Costs of Labor Migration and Global Recession on Brazilian Schools in Japan: Rethinking Minority School Education; 14. The Need for Multicultural Education in South Korea; 15. The Deculturalization of Hissuh and her Children: The Portrait of a Muslim Mother’s Struggle to Participate in the Education Decision-Making of her Children in American Schools.