Immigration to the United States has reached historic numbers : 25 percent of children under the age of eighteen have an immigrant parent, and this number is projected to grow to one in three by 2050. Immigrant children and the children of immigrants face unique developmental challenges... Transitions offers comprehensive coverage of the field's best scholarship on the development of immigrant children, providing an overview of what the field needs to know -- or at least systematically begin to ask -- about immigrant children and adolescents from a developmental perspective. --- From back cover.

Foreword / Cynthia García Coll -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : unique and shared experiences of immigrant-origin children and youth / Carola Suárez-Orozco, Amy K. Marks, and Mona M. Abo-Zena -- Contexts of development : an ecological framework / Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona M. Abo-Zena, and Amy K. Marks -- Family separations and reunifications / Carola Suárez-Orozco -- School contexts / Amy K. Marks and Kerrie Pieloch -- Transnational connections through emerging technologies / Gonzalo Bacigalupe and Kimberly Parker -- Religion / Mona M. Abo-Zena and Meenal Rana -- The shadow of undocumented status / Carola Suárez-Orozco and Hirokazu Yoshikawa -- Processes of development / Amy K. Marks and Mona M. Abo-Zena -- Acculturation / Dina Birman and Dorothy Addae -- Identity development / Seth J. Schwartz, Miguel Ángel Cano, and Byron L. Zamboanga -- Bilingualism and language learning / Mariela M. Pèz and Cristina J. Hunter -- Child language brokering / Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and Shu-Sha Angie Guan -- Developmental outcomes / Mona M. Abo-Zena and Amy K. Marks -- Paradoxes in physical health / Robert Crosnoe, Aida Ramos-Wada, and Claude Bonazzo -- Mental health and clinical issues / Pratyusha Tummala-Narra -- Behavioral outcomes / Hoan N. Bui -- Academic achievement / Amy K. Marks, Lourah M. Seaboyer, and Cynthia García Coll -- Civic involvement / Lene Arnett Jensen and Justin Laplante -- Future directions : implications for research, practice, and policy / Carola Suárez-Orozco, Hiro Yoshikawa, and Margary Martin -- Glossary -- About the contributors -- Index.