Description: Further DetailsTitle: Language BrokersCondition: NewSubtitle: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their FamiliesISBN-10: 1503639460EAN: 9781503639461ISBN: 9781503639461Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/06/2024Description: In a nation lacking a comprehensive social safety net, people often scramble to find private solutions to structural problems. While existing scholarship primarily focuses on how adults, particularly mothers, navigate systematic gaps in social support, Language Brokers shifts our attention to bilingual children securing crucial resources for their families. Drawing upon interviews with working-class Mexican and Korean American language brokers, as well as healthcare providers, and months of participant observation in a Southern California police station, Hyeyoung Kwon reveals how children of immigrants translate more than simple verbal exchanges. Living at the intersection of multiple forms of inequality, these youth creatively use their in-between status to resolve structural problems to ensure their families' basic citizenship rights are upheld in interactions with teachers, social workers, landlords, doctors, and police officers. In an era of widespread racialized nativism, Language Brokers provides a critical examination of American culture, laying bare the contradictions between the ideals of equality and the exclusion of immigrants. Kwon underscores that dichotomous and racialized understandings of "deserving" and "undeserving" immigrants—which are embedded in everyday interactions and institutional practices—inform the routine ways in which immigrant youth attempt to cultivate belonging for their families.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Hyeyoung KwonGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryBook Series: Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and CapitalismItem Weight: 12.8 ouncesgType: Social SciencesEdition: 1stRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Language Brokers
Title: Language Brokers
Subtitle: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for T
ISBN-10: 1503639460
EAN: 9781503639461
ISBN: 9781503639461
Release Date: 08/06/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Edition: 1st
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Language Brokers : Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Ethnic Studies / General, Emigration & Immigration, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 13.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science
Author: Hyeyoung Kwon
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
