Chapter 11: Transforming the Future of Young Immigrant Children and Their Families: Research and Practice

For more than 40 years scholars and researchers have written about immigrant children in early childhood education, although immigrants have existed for centuries. Since the start of the human era, the majority of the primitive times of hunting and gathering until now, our descendants moved from one location to a different one for various reasons. The political and social meaning of that movement happened at the termination of the trip whether it was near or distant, certain persons supervised the journey. Initially such option was rare but currently it is inevitable. Today the world population consists of 7.8 billion people (Money & Lockhart, 2021).