Diversity and Change in the Institutional Context of Immigrant Adaptation: California Schools 1985-2000.

This article brings attention to a structural dimension of the schooling context that may affect the incorporation of immigrant youths. Using administrative data about students in California public schools, we found that Spanish-speaking, limited English-proficient (LEP) children have become increas...

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Published in:Demography Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 639 - 655
Main Authors: Van Hook, Jennifer, Balistreri, Kelly Stamper
Format: Article
Published: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. November 2002
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Summary:This article brings attention to a structural dimension of the schooling context that may affect the incorporation of immigrant youths. Using administrative data about students in California public schools, we found that Spanish-speaking, limited English-proficient (LEP) children have become increasingly more likely to attend schools with low-income, minority, and LEP students than other non-LEP and LEP groups. Nearly all the change in school composition can be attributed to statewide shifts in the composition of the school-aged population. But compositional changes have disproportionately occurred in schools attended by Spanish-speaking LEP students as a result of district-level patterns of segregation by income, race/ethnicity, and language. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.