Vikki S Katz

Kids in the Middle

How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how children actively broker connections that enable their families to become woven into the fabric of American life. Kids in the Middle explores children's contributions to the family strategies that improve communication between their parents and US schools, healthcare facilities, and social services, from the perspectives of children, parents, and the English-speaking service providers that interact with these families via children's assistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780813562186
• ISBN-10: 081356218X
• Artikelnr.: 40049869

Autorenporträt

Katz, Vikki S

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Children, Family and Community
2 Settling in Greater Crenshaw
3 Child Brokers and Their Families
4 Community Begins at Home
5 Gateways to Wellbeing
6 Shortchanging the Immigrant Bargain?
7 Brokering and Its Consequences
Appendix: Challenges of Departure
Notes
References
Index