Individual characteristics and the resilience of students with an immigrant background

This chapter examines some of the individual characteristics of students with an immigrant background that are related to their academic, social, emotional and motivational resilience. The magnitude of linguistic and cultural differences between an immigrant student’s country of origin and the country in which his or her family settled is associated with these students’ likelihood of integrating well into the host community. Other characteristics considered in the chapter are whether or not these students work for pay, whether they have participated in pre-primary education, and their gender.