Introduction Ann S. Masten, Karmela Liebkind and Donald J. Hernandez; 1. Resources, strengths, and challenges for children in immigrant families in eight affluent countries Donald J. Hernandez; 2. Better fortunes? Living arrangements and school enrolment of migrant youth in six western countries Audrey N. Beck and Marta Tienda; 3. Income poverty and income support for minority and immigrant households with children in rich countries Timothy S. Smeeding, Karen Robson, Cody Wing and Jonathan Gershuny; 4. Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children Miles Corak; 5. Positive immigrant youth adaptation in context: developmental, acculturation and social psychological perspectives Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, John Berry, Xenia Chryssochoou, David Lackland Sam and Jean Phinney; 6. Understanding the immigrant paradox in youth: developmental and contextual considerations Cynthia Garcia Coll, Flannery Patton, Amy Marks, Radosveta Dimitrova, Rui Yang, Gloria A. Suarez and Andrea Patrico; 7. The contributions of youth to immigrant families Andrew J. Fuligni and Eva H. Telzer; 8. Specifying social psychological adaptation of immigrant youth: social identity, intergroup attitudes and intergroup interactions Karmela Liebkind, Inga Jasinkskaja-Lahti and Tuuli Anna Mahonen; 9. Understanding ethnic minority identity Maykel Verkuyten; 10. Muslim, American, and immigrant: integration despite challenges Selcuk R. Sirin and Taveeshi Gupta; 11. Autonomous-related self and competence: the potential of immigrant youth Cigdem Kagitcibasi; 12. Thriving among immigrant youth: theoretical and empirical bases of positive development Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Edmond Bowers and Selve Lewin-Bizan; 13. The role of developmental transitions in psychosocial competence: a comparison of native and immigrant young people in Germany Rainer K. Silbereisen, Peter F. Titzmann, Andrea Michel, Avi Sagi-Schwartz and Yoav Lavee; 14. Conceptualizing the school acculturative context: school, classroom, and the immigrant student Gabriel Horenczyk and Moshe Tatar; 15. Peer relations in multicultural school Christiane Spiel and Dagmar Strohmier; 16. Latino education in the United States: immigration, language, and achievement Eugene E. Garcia; 17. Promoting the well-being of immigrant youth: a framework for comparing outcomes and policies Brian Nolan.