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The Work Kids Do: Mexican and Central American Immigrant Children's Contributions to Households and Schools in California.
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In this paper, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana highlights the work immigrant children do as active agents in supporting and sustaining their families, households, and schools and argues that we should not lose sight of children's present lives and daily contributions in our concern for their future.Abstract:
In this article, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana highlights the work immigrant children do as active agents in supporting and sustaining their families, households, and schools. Building on the work of sociologists who examine children's engagement in social processes, Orellana maintains that we should not lose sight of children's present lives and daily contributions in our concern for their futures. Similarly, we should not see immigrant children only as a problem or a challenge for education and for society while overlooking their contributions to family and school. Integrated into her discussion are the voices of Mexican and Central American immigrant children living in California as they describe their everyday work as helpers at home and school. These examples illustrate how immigrant children's work can be understood in many ways — as volunteerism, as opportunities for learning, and as acts of cultural and linguistic brokering between their homes and the outside world. (pp. 366–389)read more
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Socialization in the Family: Ethnic and Ecological Perspectives
Ross D. Parke,Raymond Buriel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed advances in our understanding of socialization of children in the family context and highlighted the importance of considering how multiple social changes act together in achieving their effects on children's socialization.
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Transnational childhoods: The participation of children in processes of family migration
TL;DR: The authors analyzed children's presence and participation in processes of migration and in the constitution of transnational social fields, including economic dependence and growing capacity to contribute labor; varied ways in which the needs and capacities of children of different ages and genders are defined; and their status as persons who are being "raised" and developed toward desired end points.
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Accessing Assets: Immigrant Youth's Work as Family Translators or "Para-Phrasers"
TL;DR: This article studied the ways in which bilingual youth use their knowledge of English and U.S. cultural/institutional practices to speak, listen, read, write, and do things for their immigrant parents, mostly from Mexico.
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Connecting Complex Processes: A Decade of Research on Immigrant Families
TL;DR: The authors examines research on immigrant families in the United States from the past decade from multiple disciplinary perspectives, including assimilation and acculturation, and concludes with some suggestions for continuing this integration and expanding studies to include dynamics of migration and family processes simultaneously.
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In Other Words: Translating or “Para-Phrasing” as a Family Literacy Practice in Immigrant Households
TL;DR: The authors explored the range of ways in which Spanish-English bilingual immigrant youth interpret English language texts for their families, focusing on interpretations of written text for close family members, done at home, and chart the domains of these multiple literacies.
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