Emily Hager
Education Doctoral Student Applicant
Division of Teaching & Learning
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Emily Hager is a doctoral applicant at the University of Missouri-St. Louis with a socio-cultural theory emphasis in Education. She is currently gathering qualitative data on the immigrant experience in St. Louis, focusing specifically on the experiences of Latino/as and Arab-Americans. She has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in both Illinois and Missouri, in public, private, and non-profit sectors, as well as serving as a college instructor in both Linguistics and Education departments in Illinois. She is currently a teaching assistant at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the division of Teaching and Learning.

Bullying of Immigrants – Even in Research Literature

I’ve always believed that people usually live up to the expectations we place on them. Many children seem to succeed, often, based upon the support their parents and community give them. However, when the larger community around them closes ranks and lowers expectations,that, too, also seems to determine a great deal-both about what they will do, and how society perceives their successes or failures. According to international migration information (Terrazas & Batalova, 2008) in 2007, 22.9% of school-age children had at least one immigrant parent, 47.5% of which reported their background to be Hispanic or Latino. In 35 years, white…