HDRO Conference Room
18 March 2009
Time: 12.30- 1.30 p.m.
Topic
The first-ever report to present internationally comparable statistics for children in immigrant families will soon be released by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. This report will present results for eight affluent countries, focusing on the number and proportion of all children in these countries with at least one immigrant parent, with special attention to those with origins in low and middle income countries. New results using children as the unit of analysis pertain to family composition, language use, child and parental citizenship, parental education and employment, poverty, housing, and, among adolescents and young adults, school and work. Results are interpreted, in part, through the lens of principles established by the European Union regarding immigrant integration. This seminar presents highlights from the forthcoming report.
About the Speaker
Donald J. Hernandez serves as Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology and as Associate in the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis of the University at Albany, State University of New York. He conducted the first national research using children as the unit of analysis to document the timing, magnitude, and reasons for revolutionary family changes experienced by children since the Great Depression. More recently he directed the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine study on the health and adjustment of immigrant children and families. His current work includes research developing an alternative poverty measure for the U.S.; using the Foundation for Child Development’s Index of Child Well-Being (CWI) to explore disparities in child well-being by race-ethnic and immigrant origins, and by socioeconomic status; and assessing the extent to which socioeconomic disparities versus cultural differences can account for low enrollment in early education programs among Hispanic children in immigrant and native-born families.
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