Today, immigrants and their families live in an era of exclusion. Threats of a southern border wall, increased detentions and deportations, false narratives of Mexicans as “rapists,” attempts to eliminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and the implementation of penalties for immigrants who use social services are just some examples of the hostile climate immigrant families face. A growing body of literature suggests that children of immigrants help their parents in their transition to the US society as language, cultural, and legal brokers, which generally refers to when youth translate for and/or share resources with their immigrant kin. In this paper, I review the research on contemporary children of immigrants as “brokers” and how the punitive social context influences the way brokering takes place in immigrant families. I conclude with suggestions for future research in the study of brokering in immigrant families.

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排斥时代中作为“经纪人”的移民子女

如今，移民及其家人生活在一个被排斥的时代。南部边界墙的威胁，拘留和驱逐出境的增加，墨西哥人作为“强奸犯”的虚假叙述，消除针对儿童到达的延期行动的企图，以及对使用社会服务的移民实施的惩罚，只是敌对的气候移民的一些例子家庭的脸。越来越多的文学作品表明，移民的子女以语言，文化和法律经纪人的身份帮助父母向美国社会过渡，这通常是指青年何时为他们的移民亲属翻译和/或分享资源。在本文中，我回顾了对当代移民儿童（“经纪人”）的研究，以及惩罚性的社会背景如何影响移民家庭进行经纪的方式。