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Saturday, 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM

Understanding the Development of Immigrant and Ethnic-Racial Minoritized Youth

Ethnic-racial inequities based on ethnic-racial background and migration status characterize societies across the globe and have important implications for the development of immigrant and ethno-racially minoritized youth (Umaña-Taylor & Rivas Drake, 2021). Within socially stratified contexts, youth face multiple risk factors including lack of access to opportunities and exposure to discrimination (Garcia Coll et al., 1996). Importantly, minoritized youth also demonstrate unique resilience by developing multiple adaptive responses to cope with such risk factors, including the development of bicultural identities and competencies to respond to affordances and demands associated with their ethnic-racial and national identities (Suárez Orozco et al., 2018). This symposium elucidates key risk (i.e., undocumented status, discrimination) and resilience (i.e., biculturalism) factors shaping the development of U.S. minoritized youth across multiple ethnic-racial backgrounds and using qualitative and quantitative methods.

Collectively, these studies draw from risk and resilience frameworks recognizing that minoritized youth face unique challenges and exhibit important strengths that inform their development (Suárez Orozco et al., 2018). Paper 1 explores the perceptual and cognitive processes via which youth learn about their own or their parents’ undocumented status among U.S. Latinx mixed-status families. Paper 2 examines how biculturalism may protect youth against the detrimental effect of exposure to discrimination among U.S. immigrant and ethnic-racial minoritized youth. Paper 3 investigates how family and school heritage culture socialization may promote the development of biculturalism among U.S. immigrant and ethnic-racial minoritized youth. Paper 4 examines how family heritage and host culture socialization may support the development of biculturalism among U.S. Chinese-origin youth.

Paper #1
Title	Are all Latinos Illegal?: An Exploration of Children’s Awakening to Immigration Status
Presenting author	Sarah A. Rendon Garcia, University of Connecticut, United States

Paper #2
Title	The Protective Role of Biculturalism in the Link Between Discrimination and Psychosocial Adjustment
Presenting author	M. Dalal Safa, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

Paper #3
Title	The Role of Family and School Ethnoracial Socialization on Adolescents’ Biculturalism Development
Presenting author	Ariel Guicheng Tan, Harvard Graduate School of Education, United States

Paper #4
Title	Chinese American Parents’ Bi-Cultural Socialization and their Adolescents’ Perceived Cultural Harmony Two Years Later
Presenting author	Christa Schmidt, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

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Session chair
M. Dalal Safa, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

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