Children and Inequality

Wrigley, Julia; Dreby, Joanna

doi:10.1002/9780470996973.ch11

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“…Menjivar found in her ethnographic study of Salvadoran families that ''the social role of the younger group has been expanded and strengthened and their status enhanced' ' (2000, p. 213). This may be attributed to children's greater English proficiency than their parents, their work as family translators and their greater comfort with U.S. institutions via public school enrollment (Orellana 2001;Orellana et al 2001;Wrigley and Dreby 2005). Legality may also be a source of tension in transnational families.…”

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“…This may be attributed to children’s greater English proficiency than their parents, their work as family translators and their greater comfort with U.S. institutions via public school enrollment (Orellana 2001; Orellana et al. 2001; Wrigley and Dreby 2005). Legality may also be a source of tension in transnational families.…”

Section: Conflicts In Transnational Familiesmentioning

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Inequalities in Transnational Families

Dreby

Adkins

2010

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Over the past two decades, interest in the transnational lifestyles of contemporary migrants has grown significantly. In this article, we focus not on transnational identities, processes or structures, but rather on the emergent literature on transnational families in the context of migration to the United States. Transnational family studies broadly fall into two thematic camps: 1) those that describe transnational households as cooperative units in the face of economic, political and legal constraint and 2) those that show how the conditions that lead family members to live apart exacerbate and create new sources of conflict within families. Whether highlighting family conflict or cooperation, contemporary transnational family studies differ theoretically from prior research on immigrant families. Instead of focusing on immigrant incorporation, this literature demonstrates how global structures of inequality at the macro‐level affect the everyday lives of transnational family members, as well as how individual action reproduces or challenges these broader social inequalities.

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Inequalities in Transnational Families

Dreby

Adkins

2010

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“…Over the past 20 years, an emerging area of research on childhood has focused on understanding children as autonomous actors creating their own social worlds as distinct from and in dynamic relationship to those of the adults in their lives (Corsaro, 1997; Wrigley & Dreby, 2005). According to Qvortrup (1999), the new sociology of childhood has been relatively divorced from traditional, structural approaches to understanding children’s lives, which emphasize the economic and political inequalities children experience in different societies.…”

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Children and Power in Mexican Transnational Families

Dreby¹

2007

J of Marriage and Family

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Today, many families find that they are unable to fulfill the goal of maintaining a household by living together under the same roof. Some members migrate internationally. This article addresses the consequences of a transnational lifestyle for children who are left behind by migrant parents. Using ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with a total of 141 members of Mexican transnational families, I explore how children who are left behind react to parents’ migrations. I focus on how Mexican children manifest the competing pressures they feel surrounding parents’ migrations and consequently shape family migration patterns. The article shows that children may experience power, albeit in different ways at different ages, while simultaneously being disadvantaged as dependents and in terms of their families’ socioeconomic status.

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Children and Inequality

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Inequalities in Transnational Families

Inequalities in Transnational Families

Children and Power in Mexican Transnational Families

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