Immigration and School Safety

<p><em>Immigration and School Safety </em>utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to expose the complex relationship between immigration and school safety in the United States. It addresses not only individual intrapersonal and environmental factors but also distant-level conditions that are relevant to the experiences of immigrant children and connected to school safety. Twenty-five percent of all youth in U.S. schools have at least one immigrant parent and that percentage is expected to increase to 33 percent by 2040.</p><p>A wide array of factors including but not limited to laws public and political discourses educational policies interpersonal relationships socioeconomic status English language proficiency citizenship legal status family characteristics race and ethnicity generational status nationality religion and gender contribute to the marginalizing experiences of children of immigrants at school. With the rapid growth of students in immigrant families in U.S. schools any effort to address school violence and implement school safety policies must consider barriers associated with the unique educational experiences of that segment. This book highlights the often overlooked importance of immigration as a mediating factor in explaining both violence and victimization and provides a blueprint for integrating immigration and criminology theories into evidence-based efforts toward ensuring safety for all students.</p><p>The authors demonstrate that immigration matters significantly in school violence and safety concerns and illustrate why research that integrates immigration with criminology theories is needed to understand the causes and correlates of school violence. The book will appeal to a wide array of individuals including academics educators policymakers practitioners social workers parents and stakeholders who are committed to addressing educational disparities and inequities associated with immigration and school safety.</p>