Challenges faced by Latin American Immigrant Youth in Kentucky | ||
| مجلة جامعة الفيوم للعلوم التربوية والنفسية | ||
| Article 45, Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2017, Pages 1118-1138 PDF (416.26 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfust.2017.83940 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ali Alasmar | ||
| Western Kentucky University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Challenges faced by Latin American Immigrant Youth in Kentucky Abstract Out of all the immigrants, the Latino immigrants from the Central and South America constitute the largest group "The Utilization of Mixed Methods To Study Consensus Building in Dual Diagnosis Treatment. There are approximately 39.9 million foreign-born individuals in the United States in the year 2010 and a majority of them come from Latin America, Asia and the Afro-Caribbean basin. Immigrant youth face a variety of challenges of which struggling to receive the necessary education primarily due to poverty and also have difficulty finding employment thereafter. The purpose of the study is to determine if there is an association between education levels and unemployment statuses among the Latin American immigrant youth in Kentucky. The data for education levels would be collected from selected college campuses in Kentucky. The data on unemployment levels would be obtained from the Kentucky Workforce Development Cabinet. The data would be analyzed using chi-square to determine if any significant association exists between the two chosen variables | ||
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