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Introduction and Overview -- Blurring Borders at B-Club : Research, Theory, Practice -- Seeing with our Hearts -- A Pedagogy of Heart and Mind -- Shining Lights in a Globalized World -- Faces of Globalization : The Community Context -- Learning and Love -- Transculturation -- Translanguaging -- Transliteracies -- Policy, Practice, and Possibilities : Imagining Teaching and Learning for a New World -- Appendix A: B-Club Kids Survey Responses 2012-13

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Translating Frames -- Chapter 2. Landscapes of Childhood -- Chapter 3. Home Work -- Chapter 4. Public Para-Phrasing -- Chapter 5. Transculturations -- Chapter 6. Transformations -- Chapter 7. Translating Childhoods -- Appendix A: Learning from Children -- Appendix B: Transcription Conventions -- Appendix C: Domains of Language Brokering -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work" children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and dev

AbstractUsing survey and observational data, children's contributions to households in a Mexican immigrant community in Chicago are examined. Children provide essential help to their families, including translating, interpreting, and caring for siblings. These daily life activities shape possibilities for learning and development.

ABSTRACT  Bilingual children are frequently called on to use their linguistic and communicative virtuosity to interpret for monolingual speakers. In this article, we theorize child interpreters' positionalities within the interstices of several borderlands: as children; as interpreters and translators interpreting different languages, registers, and discourses; and as immigrants seeking services within white public space. We analyze how youths are positioned to provide service and surveillance within overdetermined interpreter‐mediated practices. In examining these practices, we raise to consciousness some of the social and ideological conditions that circumscribe working‐class Latino/a and new Mexican immigrant children within inherently unequal subject positions. [Keywords: interpreter‐mediated interactions, childhood, Mexican new immigrants, racialization, white public space]

AbstractIn the midst of dramatic changes to American health care law there is need to understand the challenges that vulnerable populations encounter in obtaining and managing health insurance. Research has found that child language brokers, children who mediate language and culture for their immigrant families, assist with health‐related matters. We report on focus groups with 17 language brokers living in Central Los Angeles. In this article we detail their experiences language brokering for health insurance and their knowledge of health insurance and policies that apply to their immigrant families. We illuminate some barriers immigrant families face as well as how they navigate them. We conclude with policy implications, particularly in relation to making health insurance more accessible to non‐English speaking and immigrant populations.