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23 Int'l Migration Rev. 3 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv23 and id is 1 raw text is: Mexican Immigration and the Port-of-Entry School Reynaldo Baca California State University Dexter Bryan California State University Clair McLean-Bardwell and Francisco Gomez California State University The results of an immigrant student census in a port-of-entry school district are used to describe the educational backgrounds of Mexican immigrant students and to distinguish types of Mexican immigrant students by school entry patterns. Interviews with recently arrived Mexican immigrant parents reveal the educational and occupational expectations they hold for their children in the U.S. The study find- ings are used as a basis for raising policy questions and generating research issues. Our research on Mexican immigration and California schools grew out of our study of the social organization of migrating unauthorized Mex- ican workers from Mexico living and working in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles. In our 1979 survey (Baca and Bryan, 1981, 1983) of urban successful, nonapprehended unauthorized Mexican workers we found that both short-term (3-7 years) and long-term (8 years or more) resident workers make repeated round-trip visits to Mexico. This binational pat- tern seems to work well for the economic enhancement of urban immigrant workers who are working in the United States and maintaining ties in their natal communities in Mexico. Yet, little is known about how the children of Mexican urban workers are affected by the migration of their parents. What are the educational career patterns of the children of Mex- ican urban workers? Do they, like many children of rural migrant workers, follow their parents back and forth across the border? If migration experiences lead to an individual or family decision to settle (Massey, et. al. 1987: 178); how does this decision affect the education of Mexican children? Do parents with children who have entered schools before set- tlement leave their children in Mexico to complete their schooling there? Our study of the adaptation of children of urban Mexican workers began in 1984 with an ethnographic study of natal communities in Mexico. Indepth interviews were conducted with teachers, students whose parents were in the North, and students who had recently returned from port-of- entry schools in California. Observations regarding the educational careers IMR Volume xxiii, No. 1 3

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