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The Significance of Immigrant Children and Youth: Understanding and Bridging the Empathy Gap

Explore the importance of immigrant children and youth, challenges they face, and the need to bridge the empathy gap to support their integration and well-being. Learn about the diverse experiences of immigrant communities and the urgent need for understanding and inclusion.

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The Significance of Immigrant Children and Youth: Understanding and Bridging the Empathy Gap

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  1. Why Do Immigrant Children & Youth Matter? Bridging the Empathy Gap Marcelo Suárez-Orozco Carola Suárez-Orozco

  2. Emigration, Immigration, Transit

  3. International Migrants

  4. Recurring Myths

  5. Around the World • 1in 8 migrants is a child • 28 million are forcibly displaced • Another 20 million are international migrants

  6. U.S. Perspective • Children of Immigrants • 1st & 2nd generation • Share foreign born parents • Most rapidly growing child population • 18.7 million under the age of 18 • While the majority are 2nd generation (thus citizen children) • Distinct but Overlapping Groups • Newcomers • Refugees • Undocumented Status • Unaccompanied minors • English Learners

  7. Rapidly Growing Inequality

  8. Number of Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S., 1990-2013(Passel et al., 2014)

  9. Racially Diverse

  10. Focus of Closing the Empathy Gap

  11. Challenges for Immigrant Origin Children Youth • Adult Centered discourse • Oblivious to: • Not children’s decision to immigrate • Challenges of Acculturation • Complications of identity formation • Developing a sense of belonging in face of social exclusion

  12. Home Alone • Breakdown in National Policy Architecture • Some states & communities forging innovative solutions in response • Local Beacons of Light • Programmatic excellence have generated in many spaces • What can be learned, disseminated, and improved by creating purposeful networked communities of practice?

  13. Our Challenge

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