Meeting Multicultural Needs in School Libraries: An Examination of Mexican Migrant Families and Factors That Influence Academic Success

ABSTRACT

The children of Mexican migrants face a number of hardships and difficulties that greatly hamper their ability to succeed in American schools. This paper examines some of the major difficulties and suggests multicultural programs that school librarians can implement in order to help migrant children achieve academic success.

KEYWORDS:

• Migrant children
• migrant workers
• Mexican Americans
• multicultural programming