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Immigrant Youth Language

  • What is Language Brokering?
    • Common Questions
    • Brokering in Action
  • Do You Research Language Brokering?
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  • Do You Translate for Others?
    • Helping Family
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  • Do You Teach Kids Who Translate?
    • The Skills Involved
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Academic Resources

Books

  1. Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language and Culture (Rutgers, 2009) by Marjorie Elaine – https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/translating-childhoods/9780813545233 
  2. Expanding Definitions of Giftedness: The Case of Young Interpreters From Immigrant Communities (Routledge, 2014), edited by Guadalupe Valdés – https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781410607249/expanding-definitions-giftedness-guadalupe-valdes 
  3. Kids in the Middle: How Children of Immigrants Negotiate Community Interactions for Their Families (Rutgers, 2014) by Vicki Katz – https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/kids-in-the-middle/9780813562186 
  4. Language Brokering in Immigrant Families: Theories and Contexts (Routledge, 2017), edited by Robert S. Weisskirch – https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315644714/language-brokering-immigrant-families-robert-weisskirch 
  5. Parents’ and Children’s Perspectives on Language Brokering: A Comparative Approach (Bonomia University Press, 2019) by Federica Ceccoli – https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/695983.4 
  6. Migrant Children on Stage: Their Role as Bilingual Brokers (Bologna University Press, 2022) by Federica Ceccoli – https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/851390 
  7. Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for their Parents (Stanford University Press, 2024) by Hyeyoung Kwon – https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/language-brokers 
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Websites

Child Language Brokering: Understanding the lives of young translators and interpreters, by Sarah Crafter

Child language brokers are children or young people who translate or interpret on behalf of adult family members, siblings or peers who do not speak the local language. When arriving in a new country, children often learn the local language faster than their parents do ….

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