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Language Brokers - Hyeyoung Kwon

Language Brokers

Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families

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Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3868-6 (ISBN)
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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.

Hyeyoung Kwon is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

1. Brokering Belonging

2. English-Speaking Institutions in a Multilingual City

3. Becoming Language Brokers

4. The Double Bind in Language Brokers' Lives

5. Doing American from an Outsider-Within Position

6. Inclusion Work

7. Learning from Children Language Brokers

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-5036-3868-5 / 1503638685
ISBN-13 978-1-5036-3868-6 / 9781503638686
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