Cultural Brokering in Immigrant Families

S Subramoney, EA Walle, A Main… - Child Development …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Cultural brokering refers to the process of youth (ie, children, adolescents, and emerging
adults) from immigrant families interpreting cultural norms for others. Cultural brokering is …

Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth's well-being: A meta-analytic review.

Y Shen, E Seo, AI Jiles, Y Zheng, Y Wang - American Psychologist, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Youth from immigrant families often translate or interpret materials for their parents who lack
proficiency in the dominant language of the mainstream society. However, evidence remains …

“Please do not leave any notes for the cleaning lady, as many do not speak English fluently”: Policy, power, and language brokering in a multilingual workplace

K Gonçalves, A Schluter - Language Policy, 2017 - Springer
This article investigates the covert language policy and micro-language planning practices
of one female Brazilian-American entrepreneur, Magda, within her multilingual cleaning …

From language brokering to digital brokering: Refugee settlement in a smartphone age

S Worrell - Social media+ society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Many young people in migrant families perform language-brokering tasks for their parents to
help them overcome their everyday challenges of communicating in a new language. Such …

Fácil or A piece of cake: Does variability in bilingual language brokering experience affect idiom comprehension?

BG López, J Vaid - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2018 - cambridge.org
Compared to studies of the effects of formal training in translation, little is known about the
psycholinguistic impact of the experience of informal translation, or language brokering. The …

Effects of cultural brokering on individual wellbeing and family dynamics among immigrant youth

V Lazarevic - Journal of Adolescence, 2017 - Elsevier
Over 90% of immigrant youth help their parents navigate the mainstream US culture, a
process known as cultural brokering. Past research has indicated that brokering can often …

“Employers could use us, but they don't”: voices from blue-collar workplaces in a northern periphery

AE Holm, B O'Rourke, M Danson - Language Policy, 2020 - Springer
This article analyses labour market experiences of migrants of non-Nordic origin who have
settled in the Faroe Islands, a small North Atlantic archipelago with a population of about …

Navigating intercultural misunderstandings: An examination of emotion brokering.

S Subramoney, E Walle, A Main… - Cultural diversity and …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: Communication difficulties are inevitable when individuals interact with members
of a different culture. The experience of such communication barriers may be particularly …

Theoretical, empirical, and practice literature on language brokering: Family, academic, and psychological outcomes

J Mier-Chairez, B Arellano, SE Tucker… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Language is an important characteristic of culture. Importantly, with the ever-present
migration of persons across countries and cultures, physical boundaries of language have …

" I felt like I was doing grown-up things": Young Adult Reflections on their Childhood Experiences of Online Searching and Brokering in Immigrant Families

A Le, M Ma, L Bui, A Shi, L Pham, C Gonzalez… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Online search and brokering (OSB) is the phenomenon in which youth search for
information for their immigrant families on the Internet. Few studies exist on reflecting on the …