Author: Minyu Zhang Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Language brokering is a special form of interpersonal communication that is affected by the cultural and relational settings in which it occurs. Taking a dyadic perspective of acculturation allows us to see how parent-adolescent acculturation is contextually situated. The current study aims to explore whether the joint acculturation status of parent-adolescent dyads may be one of the precursors that affects objective and subjective experiences of adolescent language brokering. Using data from a two-wave longitudinal study of Mexican American adolescent language brokering families (N = 604 at Wave 1; N = 483 at Wave 2; M [subscript wave1.age] = 12,91; 54.3% female), I conducted latent profile analyses and found four mother-adolescent acculturation profiles and three father-adolescent profiles: adolescent integrated–mother separated, adolescent moderately assimilated–mother moderately separated, adolescent moderately integrated–mother moderately separated, and adolescent moderately integrated–mother separated; adolescent integrated–father moderately separated, adolescent moderately assimilated–father moderately separated, and adolescent moderately integrated–father moderately separated. The adolescent integrated–parent (moderately) separated profiles emerged as the most adaptive, as they related to more positive language brokering experiences compared with other profiles.
Author: Jiaxiu Song Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
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Language brokering is a shared experience between parents and children in which children interpret and mediate between the host culture/language and their heritage culture/language for their English-limited parents. Using two waves of survey data collected from a sample (N [subscript adolescents] = 604, N [subscript mothers] = 595 at Wave 1) of Mexican American adolescents (Mage = 12.41, 54% female) and their mothers, the current study tested an actor-partner interdependence model and found that both mothers’ and youths’ subjective language brokering experiences were related to their own psychological wellbeing via their own sense of parent-child alienation. This study also found that high levels of adolescents’ perceptions of parent-child alienation mediated the relation between mothers’ negative brokering experiences and adolescents’ psychological maladjustment
Author: Marc H. Bornstein Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780805858723 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 355
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Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) sponsored a conference that brought together scholars who work to define and develop assessments of acculturation, and who study the impact of acculturation on families. The goals of the conference were to evaluate both the status of acculturation as a scientific construct and the roles of acculturation in parenting and human development. The goal of this volume is to advance the state-of-the-art. Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships: Measurement and Development is a must-read for researchers, students, and policymakers concerned with cultural factors that affect the lives of parents and children.
Author: Gordon C. Nagayama Hall Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0128163003 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 333
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Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States reviews research on immigrant mental health, acculturation, and multicultural psychology. The book is divided into three sections: Section A addresses the geographic and social context of immigration, including how parents and children navigate the acculturation process, how different cultural orientations affect behavior, and research methods on acculturation. Sections B and C focus on mental health issues common to Latinx, Asian, and Arab/Middle Eastern immigrants, and then more broadly across immigrant groups. Included here are a focus on depression, anxiety, and somatization, as well as alcohol abuse, insomnia, and issues for LGBTQ+ individuals. Pre- and post-migration stressors are discussed, as well as the effects of prejudice and bias, the mental health effects of religion and spirituality, and managing the demands of both work and family. Contributors from psychology, education, and social work provide different perspectives and identify opportunities for future research. Summarizes research on mental health issues common to immigrants Identifies prevalence of mental disorders among ethnic minorities in the United States Examines the impact of group-based discrimination on mental health Explores the impact of acculturation on mental health Reviews mental health issues specific to Latinx, Asian, and Middle Eastern immigrants Covers alcohol abuse, sleep, and other disorders across immigrant groups
Author: Robert S. Weisskirch Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317289846 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 329
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Language Brokering in Immigrant Families: Theories and Contexts brings together an international group of researchers to share their findings on language brokering—when immigrant children translate for their parents and other adults. Given the large amount of immigration occurring worldwide, it is important to understand how language brokering may support children’s and families’ acculturation to new countries. The chapter authors include overviews of the existing literature, insights from multiple disciplines, the potential benefits and drawbacks to language brokering, and the contexts that may influence children, adolescents, and emerging adults who language broker. With the latest findings, the authors theorize on how language brokering may function and the outcomes for those who do so.
Author: Steven Alvarez Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438467214 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 214
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Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book in Community Writing Award presented by the Coalition for Community Writing Brokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that connected immigrant parents with English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual children with homework and encouraged positive academic attitudes. Steven Alvarez gives an ethnographic account of literacies practices, language brokering, advocacy, community-building, and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City. Alvarez argues that engaging literacy mentorship across languages can increase parental involvement and community engagement among immigrant families, and offers teachers and researchers possibilities for rethinking their own practices with the communities of their bilingual students.
Author: Sarah Gallo Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807775649 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 136
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Mi Padre centers on the promise of parent involvement practices that build upon the range of linguistic and sociocultural resources that Latin immigrant students and their families bring to school. Through the experiences of Mexican immigrant fathers and their children, this book illustrates the need for humanizing family engagement. Gallo identifies the many ways these fathers contribute to their children’s education and how educators can communicate more effectively with immigrant families. Mi Padre also shows the consequences of deportation-based immigration policies on elementary school education and offers strategies for supporting students and their families in the classroom. The author stresses the importance of learning from and with families and offers practical suggestions for how to build relationships with all caregivers as a counterpractice to the one-size-fits-all schooling that many teachers, students, and families experience today. “By highlighting fathers with a deep longing for the benefits and opportunities that a good education can offer their children, Sarah Gallo has documented how these men redefine what it means to be engaged in their children’s schooling. Teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and others will all benefit from this beautiful and powerful book.” —Sonia Nieto, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “A compelling and lucid example of activist scholarship rooted in rigorous ethnographic inquiry . . . a must-read for pre- and inservice teachers grappling with how to work in solidarity with families that are threatened by racism and exclusionary notions of citizenship.” —Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania, author of Partnering with Immigrant Communities
Author: Kee J. E. Straits Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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With the growing percentage of immigrant families in the USA, language transition is a common immigrant experience and can occur rapidly from generation to generation within a family. Child language brokering appears to occur within minority language families as one way of negotiating language and cultural differences; however, the phenomenon of children translating or mediating language interactions for parents has previously been hypothesized to contribute to negative outcomes for children, such as role-reversals and parentification, emotional distancing and lack of communication, increased parent-child conflict, and increased internalizing/externalizing disorders. The current study used direct observations of 60 Spanish-speaking parent-child dyads (30 mother-child and 30 father-child) as they worked on a joint academic task in English to explore: (1) child language brokering patterns, (2) parent-child interactions, and (3) the quality of the parent-child relationship. Children included in the study were between the ages of 4 and 10 years. Instruments used included demographic questionnaires, the ARSMA-II, and coding of videotaped interactions for language brokering patterns (frequency and prevalence of both child translations and parental prompts), parent-child relationship quality, parental engagement strategies, and the situational power dynamic between parent and child. Observations, descriptive statistics, correlations, and a hierarchical regression were used to analyze data. Results demonstrated that language brokering occurred at a higher prevalence among the youngest age group than prior studies have suggested, parents actively contribute to child brokering behaviors through parental prompts, and mothers and fathers use different engagement strategies. Findings also demonstrated that child language brokering significantly contributed to the prediction of parent-child relationship quality, with more frequent brokering associated with more positive parent-child relationships. There was no significant correlation with child language brokering frequency and the parent-child power dynamic. Results may have limited generalizability due to the exploratory nature of statistics used, the emotional safety of the observed parent-child joint task situation, and the small sample size and specificity of the sample (primarily rural Mexican two-parent immigrant families with children born in the USA). Implications for practice include: normalization of language brokering as a part of bicultural development, facilitation of insight into changing family roles and maintenance of adaptive power dynamics within a context of change, and the enhancement of parent and child communication strategies.
Author: Carola Suárez-Orozco Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814770711 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 368
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Winner Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence Immigration to the United States has reached historic numbers— 25 percent of children under the age of 18 have an immigrant parent, and this number is projected to grow to one in three by 2050. These children have become a significant part of our national tapestry, and how they fare is deeply intertwined with the future of our nation. Immigrant children and the children of immigrants face unique developmental challenges. Navigating two distinct cultures at once, immigrant-origin children have no expert guides to lead them through the process. Instead, they find themselves acting as guides for their parents. How are immigrant children like all other children, and how are they unique? What challenges as well as what opportunities do their circumstances present for their development? What characteristics are they likely to share because they have immigrant parents, and what characteristics are unique to specific groups of origin? How are children of first-generation immigrants different from those of second-generation immigrants? Transitions offers comprehensive coverage of the field’s best scholarship on the development of immigrant children, providing an overview of what the field needs to know—or at least systematically begin to ask—about the immigrant child and adolescent from a developmental perspective. This book takes an interdisciplinary perspective to consider how personal, social, and structural factors interact to determine a variety of trajectories of development. The editors have curated contributions from experts across a carefully selected variety of topics covering ecologies, processes, and outcomes of development pertinent to immigrant origin children.
Author: Minyu Zhang
Author: Jiaxiu Song
Author: Marc H. Bornstein
Author: Gordon C. Nagayama Hall
Author: Robert S. Weisskirch
Author: Alejandro Morales
Author: Steven Alvarez
Author: Sarah Gallo
Author: Kee J. E. Straits
Author: Carola Suárez-Orozco