Desirée Baolian Qin

Desirée Baolian Qin received her doctoral degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently a Postdoc Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on immigration, adolescent development, and education. Her dissertation study explored how gender interacts with home- and school-level factors in Chinese immigrant children’s educational and psychosocial adaptation. In her current research, she is examining the psychological adjustment of Chinese American adolescents, particularly the impact of parent-child relations and school factors, such as perceived support from teachers and peer relations. She is the author of “Gendered Expectations and Gendered Experiences: Immigrant Students’ Adaptation in Schools” (New Directions for Youth Development, 2004). She is co-editor (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco) of the six-volume series titled Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration (Routledge, 2001) and co-editor (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco) of Globalization: Education and Culture in the New Millennium (UC Press, 2004).

The Other Side of the Model Minority Story: The Psychological and Social Adjustment of Chinese American Adolescents

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Research on Asian origin children and adolescents in the U.S. has focused predominantly on their educational achievement. This emphasis, however, ignores not only the diversity of Asian students’ educational experiences but also their psychological and social well-being. A small but growing body of research suggests that while Asian American students may be doing well in … Read more