"work" children perform as language and culture brokers
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Author_Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
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child labor
children
Children roles as translators
culture
culture brokers
dynamics of immigrant family life
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ethnographic data
ethnographic research
expands the definition of child labor
Family Life
immigrant communities
immigrant families
Immigrant Family Life
Immigrant Youth
keys to communication
Language
language brokers
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
non-English speaking
Public Para-Phrasing
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies series
sociocultural learning
socioculutral
study of immigrant youth
transculturation
Transculturations
Translating Childhoods
translators
Youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780813545233
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 May 2009
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution.
Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle" or the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA.
