Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language Learning and Love

by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Book Overview

Grounded in both theory and practice, with implications for both, this book is about children's perspectives on the borders that society erects, and their actual, symbolic, ideational and metaphorical movement across those borders. Based on extensive ethnographic data on children of immigrants (mostly from Mexico, Central America and the Philippines) as they interact with undergraduate students from diverse linguistic, cultural and racial/ethnic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138804959
• ISBN13: 9781138804951
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"