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01-01-2015 | Book Review

Vikki S. Katz: Kids in the Middle: How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2014, 192 pp, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6218-6

Auteur: Sonam Vachhani

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 1/2015

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In Kids in the Middle: How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families, Vikki S. Katz examines the roles and responsibilities of children of immigrants in the United States. By drawing on four years of ethnographic data, she documents how children, as the primary English speakers in their households, influence family interactions at home and in schools, healthcare facilities, and social services in one settlement community. By focusing on the experiences of twenty Spanish-speaking Latino families residing in Greater Crenshaw, an urban community of Los Angeles, California, Katz examines how these children act as “brokers” by facilitating their immigrant parents’ connections to and understandings of their local environments. …

vorige artikel Jerome Kagan: The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development

volgende artikel David Haugen and Susan Musser (eds): The Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Katz, V. S. (2014). Kids in the middle: How children of immigrants negotiate community interactions for their families. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Roche, K. M., Caughy, M. O., Schuster, M. A., Bogart, L. M., Dittus, P. J., & Franzini, L. (2014). Cultural orientations, parental beliefs and practices, and latino adolescents’ autonomy and independence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 1389–1403.PubMedCrossRef

Telzer, E. H., Gonzales, N., & Fuligni, A. J. (2014). Family obligation values and family assistance behaviors: protective and risk factors for mexican-american adolescents’ substance use. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 270–283.PubMedCrossRef

Titel: Vikki S. Katz: Kids in the Middle: How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2014, 192 pp, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6218-6
Auteur: Sonam Vachhani
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2015
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-014-0218-4

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