Session 35: Language, Poverty, and Living Arrangements of Children of Immigrants

Thursday, May 1 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Hennepin 2nd Floor

1.	Language Proficiency and the Hispanic Dropout Rate  •   Karine S. Moe, Macalester College

2.	When Children Speak Different Languages: The Effects of Sibship Ordering and Family Life Cycle Stage on Children’s Minority Language Usage in Immigrant Households  •   Gillian Stevens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hiromi Ishizawa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3.	The Living Arrangements of African American and Immigrant Children, 1880-1990  •   Stewart E. Tolnay, University of Washington

4.	One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Increase in Immigrant Child Poverty from 1970 to 2000  •   Jennifer Van Hook, Bowling Green State University; Susan L. Brown, Bowling Green State University; Maxwell Ndigume Kwenda, Bowling Green State University

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