Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the … evidence that the academic achievement of immigrant children in early adolescence is an accurate predictor of later life … outcomes. We also examine a novel hypothesis that relative academic performance of immigrant children in high school compared …

Children occupy a “liminal childhood,” in the immigration legal system, as they are provided neither child …, infantilized and robbed of agency. More commonly, however, immigrant children—largely teens of color—are subjected to … adultification. Adultification refers to the phenomenon whereby children of color suffer a wide variety of negative outcomes across a …