The paper should address the following questions: what are the obstacles they face? How do they negotiate the extreme `shock` of a new language, culture, and society? What is the nature of the gap between their expectations and the reality of their experience? It is about the kindes of psychological and social `border crossings` that immigrants experience as they live between two cultures, two countries, and two languages. The focus should be on the impact that the immigrant experience has on ego development in children and teenagers.