Child Development
Volume 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1591-1607

The Development of Young Children of Immigrants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Article)

Washbrook E. , Waldfogel J.* , Bradbury B. , Corak M. , Ghanghro A.A.
  • a University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  • b Columbia University, United States, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
  • c University of New South Wales, Australia
  • d University of Ottawa, IZA, Canada
  • e University of Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

In spite of important differences in some of the resources immigrant parents have to invest in their children, and in immigrant selection rules and settlement policies, there are significant similarities in the relative positions of 4- and 5-year-old children of immigrants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Children of immigrants underperform their counterparts with native-born parents in vocabulary tests, particularly if a language other than the official language is spoken at home, but are not generally disadvantaged in nonverbal cognitive domains, nor are there notable behavioral differences. These findings suggest that the cross-country differences in cognitive outcomes during the teen years documented in the existing literature are much less evident during the early years. © 2012 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.

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Index Keywords

Parents educational status longitudinal study Australia psychological aspect human Longitudinal Studies Great Britain language child behavior ethnology Psychological Tests United States Humans parent Canada Emigrants and Immigrants preschool child cognition Socioeconomic Factors Child, Preschool socioeconomics psychologic test Article migration United Kingdom Child Development Child
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01796.x
ISSN: 00093920
Cited by: 31
Original Language: English