Challenges Faced by Immigrant Students in Education System

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1. Formal expressions: Governmental responses
a. In the current increasingly globalized world, there has been rising number of disparities where
most of the population lives a life full of daily challenges. Immigration has been one of the
polarizing topics for most of the years (Banks, 2014). The current administrative documents
revealed the challenges faced by millions of undocumented immigrants and their elevated issue
towards their educational system. There lies a wide range of laws, executive decisions regarding
the policies in connection to the rights of the primary or the basic education to the immigrant’s
children. The affected groups of population are the immigrant’s students and some of the major
challenges they face are the barriers in language and in communication. Furthermore getting
used to custom and the cultural practices are some of the challenging factors for the immigrant
students.
b. The right of the education to the children towards compulsory and free primary education has
been long overlooked in the history of the culture of the right of the child. In the concept of the
international legal basis, the right to education is generally illustrated in the international law on
the article 26 of the universal declaration of human rights and in the article 13 and 14 in the
international social and the cultural rights (Perez, 2015). Policies related to the education among
the children have been reaffirmed by the UNESCO conventions and the protocol relate to the
convention of the human rights. Stemming from the 1948 universal declaration of human rights,
the rights of all the children towards education irrespective of the social and the economic status
affirm the development of the personality of human together with the respect for the human
rights.
c. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly in the
year 1948, 10 December (Callahan & Humphries, 2016). The formation of the rights related to

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the universal declaration of human rights was the result of the experience related to the second
world war. The policy in connection to the right to free and compulsory education of the children
was developed under the chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt. The documentation of human
rights was first written by shah in the Cyrus cylinder depicting the freedom in relation to opinion
and other basic human rights.
Some of the basic influencer to the policy maker of the international UN Commission is
the society and the social norms regarding the development of the country and the people.
The effected group of people in this connection is the immigrant families with very low
socio economic status. It is them who do not have that much of power to address the issue.
Many of the immigrant students and their families tend to experience fear and anxiety towards
their future (Nienhusser, 2014). The concentration of the immigrants students in the schools
tends to have adverse effect on the integration efforts but the major factor of disadvantage is the
concentration of the socio economic disadvantages that hinders the success and the achievement
of the student.
d. The right to education among the children is the basic human rights. In the context of the
human rights to education, the makers of the policy axiomatically tend to relate on the notion of
the value neutral education (Nienhusser, 2015). The strategy in connection to the human rights
and education is a long term strategy with the aim towards the need of the upcoming generations.
The education for the future is essential towards the construction of innovative educational
programs for the advancement of the human development, democracy, peace and the respect
towards the rule of law.