Vikki Sara Katz

Migration creates opportunities and challenges for millions of families each year. Integrating into a new society requires acclimating to new environments - a process that poses multi-faceted communication challenges.

How do migrants learn about and become members of their new communities? This book summarizes research to date about how children make and maintain connections to their families’ new communities, all over the world. From the family home to workplaces and businesses, health care settings, social service offices, and schools, taking children’s contributions seriously helps us understand how migrant families integrate, and why some families have an easier time doing so than others.

Published in English, Spanish, and Catalan, this book is part of a series designed to be used by practitioners and professionals who work with immigrants in different parts of the world. Written in plain language, these books are ideal for anyone interested in how children influence their parents’ migration.

For more about the series, click here.

Katz, V. S. (2011). Children being seen and heard: How youth contribute to their migrant families’ adaptation. Barcelona: Aresta Publications. Book cover

Katz, V.S. (2011). Migración y familia: El papel de los hijos y las hijas en la adaptación de las familias inmigrantes (J. Torrubia, Trans.). Barcelona: Open University Press. Book cover