Technology
What challenges do children of immigrants face leading them to fall behind in academics
a lack of technology access
A financial support system where a lot of undocumented youth feel pressure to send money back to parents and relatives in their home countries.
Remittances
Youths can follow trusted youth led advocacy networks, attend community “Know Your Rights’ workshops, and utilize campus resources and political movements.
Keeping up with policies and sharing updates
What is the burden of navigating cultural divides, language barriers, and managing emotions for oneself and family?
Emotional Labor
Children translating forms, appointments, or conversations for their parents is an example of what?
Language Brokering
During the Covid-19 pandemic, this text-based tool and popular video conferencing platform became critical tech areas where children helped parents navigate daily remote life
email and zoom
Because many immigrant youth feel pressure to financially support their families, they take fast-paying jobs that are unsafe or unfair. This is described as…
exploitive Jobs
Youths must decide whether it is safe to disclose their family’s undocumented status, assess the risks in high stakes situations, and dismantle harmful narratives regarding “deserving” and “undeserving” immigrants.
informing loved ones of legal rights
What term describes children taking on adult responsibilities within the family, often resulting in a reversed parent-child dynamic?
Parentification
A community's native language becomes increasingly rare as fewer people speak it and younger generations adopt another language. What is this called?
Language loss
The Joan Ganz Cooney center report cited by Delgado notes that lower-income immigrants families face barriers because tech materials are primarily written in this language
English
This concept describes how Latino/a children often help financially by working alongside their parents and contributing money to the household.
reciprocal financial support
US born youths may travel back and forth to their parents’ home country and take on tasks that are deemed “safer” for citizens.
helping during police or immigration enforcement interactions
Determining how to translate vulnerable/difficult information to family and managing everyone’s reactions before processing one's own:
Language Brokering
What term describes the shared traditions, customs, beliefs, and values passed down through generations within a community?
Cultural heritage
According to multiple studies, lower-income immigrants are often "under-connected" to the internet, forcing children to rely on data-limited devices
smartphones
A type of employment includes jobs that are often paid in cash and may not provide legal protections or benefits is…
informal employment
The framework of laws, constitutional guarantees, and judicial remedies designed to safeguard individuals, property, and rights from harm, infringement, or arbitrary action.
legal protection
Immigrant children often help their families maintain traditions, values, and language at home while also helping them adapt to life and expectations in the United States. What is this role commonly described as?
Bridging cultures
While 77% of parents have helped their kids online more then half have experienced learning together, this phenomena is called
intergenerational learning
Many immigrant youth take on financial responsibilities to help support their families, what adult role are they often forced to take on
a financial provider (or breadwinner)
Some undocumented youth statuses give them a two year renewable work permit and temporary protection from deportation that can be beneficial for their entire family
DACA
What concept describes the pressure immigrant and Indigenous youth may experience to suppress their native language, cultural traditions, or identity in order to gain acceptance within dominant educational and social institutions?
Cultural assimilation