ABSTRACT
Growing up in America is challenging for all children of foreign-born parentage, for these children must straddle their parents’ worldview and that of the larger American society. Children of foreign-born parents must often negotiate the competing, and often conflictual, demands from home, society, and peer groups. For foreign-born youth who arrive in the United States as teenagers, the challenge of growing up takes on a different twist. Unlike those born or raised in the United States-who have no personal experience with, or little memory of, the ancestral homeland-foreignborn youth who arrive in their teens have been uprooted from the familiarity of their ancestral homeland and placed in an alien culture.
