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Subject(s)

• Women immigrants—United States—Social conditions [Browse]
• Hispanic American women—United States—Social conditions—Case studies [Browse]
• Motherhood—United States—Case studies [Browse]
• Parenting—United States—Case studies [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Case studies [Browse]

Series

• Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 439. [More in this series]
• Counterpoints: studies in criticality ; Vol. 439

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The study and its context introduction
• The big picture : immigration, vulnerability and marginalization
• A situated theory of justice : the significance of structure, process and agency
• Seven women : seven stories
• Narratives and counter narratives of parental involvement
• The discourse of parental involvement and the ideologies of motherhood
• Polyphony: master and counter stories
• Formal inclusion/informal exclusion
• Belonging and the new cultural script
• Linguistic resources : centrality, contingency and invisibility
• Mediated interactions : translation, interpretation and power asymmetry
• From vulnerability to communal agency : finding, developing and becoming resources
• Critical linguistic agency
• Immigration as a gendered experience : the crucial resource of physical mobility
• Becoming a resource : the articulation of agency and structure
• Conclusion
• Epilogue: educational motherwork beyond grade school
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781433130892 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1433130890 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 9781433130885 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 1433130882 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016043871

OCLC

962551862

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