Translating Childhoods - Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture

Klappentext Drawing from ethnographic data and research in immigrant communities, this study provides 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.Drawing from ethnographic data and research in immigrant communities, this study provides 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.

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• Authors: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2009
• EAN: 9780813545226
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4522-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Series in Childhood Studies (H; Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories