Translating Childhoods - Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Translating Frames>Home Work Public Para-Phrasing Transculturations Transformations Translating Childhoods Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2009
• EAN: 9780813545233
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4523-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Rutgers Series in Childhood St; Rutgers Series in Childhood St; Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies; Series in Childhood Studies; Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories