This review examines research on immigrant families in the United States from the past
decade from multiple disciplinary perspectives. This work has used variations on …

Despite the high numbers of children who provide care to family members in industrialized
countries, relatively little is known about the impact of caregiving on children's development …

Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to
establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining …

The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful,
authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological …

What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of
restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest among policymakers, practitioners, and
researchers in early bilingual development and the unique role of the educational setting's …

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but
in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the …

One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year.
Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children …

Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every
year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents …

How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are
families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this …