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Transformations : immigration, family life, and achievement motivation among latino adolescents / Carola and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suárez-Orozco, Carola, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican American teenagers--California.
- Mexican American teenagers.
- Achievement motivation in youth--California.
- Achievement motivation in youth.
- Teenagers--Mexico.
- Teenagers.
- Teenage immigrants.
- Mexico.
- Achievement motivation in youth--Mexico.
- Teenage immigrants--California.
- Teenage immigrants--United States.
- Mexico--Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 266 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Focusing on the puzzling differences between adolescents born in Mexico and those born in the U.S., this psychocultural study examines why second-generation Latinos lose the desire to achieve.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804725500
- 0804725519
- OCLC:
- 32508334
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