Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families by Kwon, Hyeyoung
Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families by Kwon, Hyeyoung

Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families

In a nation lacking a comprehensive social safety net, people often scramble to find private solutions to...
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Author: Hyeyoung Kwon
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Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families by Kwon, Hyeyoung

Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families

$535.81
Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families by Kwon, Hyeyoung

Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families

$535.81
Author: Hyeyoung Kwon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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.



Author: Hyeyoung Kwon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 08/06/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781503639461

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