Immigration and Schooling

A volume in Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and SocietySeries Editor: Curry Stephenson Malott, West Chester University of PennsylvaniaAt the time of Obama's draconian anti-immigrant policies leading to massivedeportation of undocumented, poor immigrants of color, there could not be amore timely and important book than this edited volume, which criticallyexamines ways in which immigration, race, class, language, and gender issuesintersect and impact the life of many immigrants, including immigrant students.This book documents the journey, many success-stories, as well as stories that expose social inequity in schoolsand U.S. society. Further, this book examines issues of social inequity and resource gaps shaping the relationsbetween affluent and poor-working class students, including students of color. Authors in this volume alsocritically unpack anti-immigrant policies leading to the separation of families and children. Equally important,contributors to this book unveil ways and degree to which xenophobia and linguicism have affected immigrants,including immigrant students and faculty of color, in both subtle and overt ways, and the manner in which manyhave resisted these forms of oppression and affirmed their humanity. Lastly, chapters in this much-needed andwell-timed volume have pointed out the way racism has limited life chances of people of color, includingstudents of color, preventing many of them from fulfilling their potential succeeding in schools and society atlarge.