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Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
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Description for Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
Hardback. .
Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution.
Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle" or the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Series in Childhood Studies
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813545226
SKU
V9780813545226
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About Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA.
Reviews for Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture
"Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society."
Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
University of California, Santa Cruz
"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning."
Carol D. Lee
Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning
"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter."
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
UCLA
"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth."
Language Arts
"I highly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel."
Elaine Rubinstein-Avila
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed."
Education Review
"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed."
Education Review
"I highly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel."
Elaine Rubinstein-Avila
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth."
Language Arts
"Translating Childhoods is a deeply insightful analysis of the daily 'work' of immigrant children and its implications for their development—a superb contribution to the field!"
Carola Sußrez-Orozco
author of Children of Immigration and Learning a New Land
"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter."
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
UCLA
"Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society."
Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
University of California, Santa Cruz
"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning."
Carol D. Lee
Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning
Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
University of California, Santa Cruz
"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning."
Carol D. Lee
Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning
"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter."
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
UCLA
"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth."
Language Arts
"I highly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel."
Elaine Rubinstein-Avila
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed."
Education Review
"Orellana tracks immigrant children in Los Angeles, Chicago, and a Chicago suburb to explore the work children do translating for others. From the author's introspection, one once more appreciates that immigrant children are not the burden they are often portrayed."
Education Review
"I highly recommend Translating Childhoods for an array of courses in language and literacy. Despite the book's strong research base, it reads more like a novel."
Elaine Rubinstein-Avila
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
"Orellana paints a powerful portrait of the complicated lives of America's immigrant youth."
Language Arts
"Translating Childhoods is a deeply insightful analysis of the daily 'work' of immigrant children and its implications for their development—a superb contribution to the field!"
Carola Sußrez-Orozco
author of Children of Immigration and Learning a New Land
"Translating Childhoods, an important and pathbreaking contribution to the new sociology of childhood, provides lucid analysis and vivid ethnographic portraits of children as powerful social actors engaged in the invisible work of language brokering at home, in schools and in public spaces across an array of institutional domains where their skills matter."
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
UCLA
"Translating Childhoods should be required reading for educators and future teachers. It provides a refreshing and important view of children as active contributors to communities and society."
Lucinda Pease-Alvarez
University of California, Santa Cruz
"This is one of the most important works on learning and development among immigrant children in the last decade. Orellana integrates a cognitive and developmental focus with deeply personal portraits that expand fundamentally our understanding of what counts as generative knowledge for academic learning."
Carol D. Lee
Northwestern University, author of Culture, Literacy and Learning