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Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation by Susan S. Chuang Immigrant Children: Change, Adaptation, and Cultural Transformation by Susan S. Chuang PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Over the past several decades, the demographic populations of many countries such as Canada as well as the United States have greatly transformed. Most striking is the influx of recent immigrant families into North America. As children lead the way for a 'new' North America, this group of children and youth is not a singular homogenous group but rather, a mosaic and diverse ethnic, racial, and cultural group. Thus, our current understanding of 'normative development' (covering social, psychological, cognitive, language, academic, and behavioral development), which has been generally based on middle-class Euro-American children, may not necessarily be 'optimal' development for all children. Researchers are widely recognizing that the theoretical...