They Think I'm a Lawyer
Undocumented College Students as Legal Brokers for Their Undocumented Parents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6090797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Delgado (0000-0002-2691-3161, corresponding author), Vanessa Delgado (0009-0003-1416-8744) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 261-283 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lapo.12152 |
| OpenAlex | W3035838322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 85 |
Past research demonstrates that children of immigrants serve as language and cultural brokers for their parents. However, much of this work centers on immigrants with protected legal status. Drawing on thirty in‐depth interviews with undocumented college students, I conceptualize the phenomenon of legal brokering to capture how undocumented students share legal resources with their parents. In addition to this conceptualization, I find that four factors shaped how students served as legal brokers: (1) online platforms; (2) institutional support; (3) networks of support; and (4) involvement in immigrant rights organizations. These findings advance theoretical frameworks in segmented assimilation theory, sociolegal studies, and immigrant illegality
Conceptualization · Criminology · Cultural assimilation · Immigration · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology
Exploring the Relationship Between Exposure to Media Depictions of Undocumented Immigrants, Identity Management, and Undocumented Immigrants’ Family Communication Profiles
Leveraging protections, navigating punishments
The anatomy of immigration enforcement
Advancing advocacy communication theory
Institutional Entanglements
Justice Beyond the Courts
Children of immigrants as “brokers” in an era of exclusion
Family formation under the law
Decoding the Hidden Curriculum
Different ways to broker
They See It in My Eyes”
Translating welfare
Uncovering Youth’s Invisible Labor
Manoeuvering through the multilayered jurisdictional policy patchwork
Making noncitizens' rights real
The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants
Can Universities Counteract Immigrant Illegality? Examining the Impact of University-Based Institutional Support on Undocumented College Students
Stratified Private Safety Nets
The affective bargain
Shadowed lives
Learning From Strangers
Border Brokers
Lives in Limbo
The Last Best Place?
Children of Immigration
Translating Childhoods
Protect, Serve, and Deport
Sacrificing Families
Knowledge Transfer
The social systems of American ethnic groups
Across Generations
How Children of Immigrants Use Media to Connect Their Families to the Community
Bottom-Up Technology Transmission Within Families
Kids at Work
Constructing Illegality in America
Borders of Belonging
Everyday Illegal
Language Brokering in Immigrant Families
Kids in the Middle
The Latino Threat
Immigrant America
“Coming Out of the Shadows”
Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance
Brokering change
Language Brokering in Linguistic Minority Communities
Racialized illegality
Legality and exploitation
Undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic
Brokering new technologies
Adolescent culture brokering and family functioning
Labor Rights for All? The Role of Undocumented Immigrant Status for Worker Claims Making
Predicting Danger in Immigration Courts
I'm Not Good Enough for Anyone”
It's One of Those Things That You Do to Help the Family”
Language Brokering
Children as Brokers of Their Immigrant Families’ Health-Care Connections
When Do Papers Matter? An Institutional Analysis of Undocumented Life in the United States
The New Second Generation
Mediating Illegality
Immigrant Adolescents Behaving as Culture Brokers
Navigating Daca in Hospitable and Hostile States
Segmented pathways of illegality
Family Political Socialization in Multiparty Systems
Geographies of Confinement for Immigrant Youth
Expanding Geographies of Deportability
Legal–Spatial Consciousness
From Sheriff's Deputies to Immigration Officers
Language Brokering among Latino Adolescents
The Relationship of Language Brokering to Academic Performance, Biculturalism, and Self-Efficacy among Latino Adolescents
Language Brokering and the Acculturation of Latino Children
The Impact of Detention and Deportation on Latino Immigrant Children and Families
Assimilation in American Life
The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
On the Radar
Representing Immigrants
Legal Consciousness of Undocumented Latinos
Becoming Dacamented
Health Care Access for Latino Mixed-Status Families
It's a Family Affair
Intergenerational Family Relations, Civic Organisations, and the Political Socialisation of Second-Generation Immigrant Youth
Political Socialisation in Immigrant Families
Mexican Immigrant Gardeners
Accessing Assets
"Racializing "Illegality
Racism, the Immigration Enforcement Regime, and the Implications for Racial Inequality in the Lives of Undocumented Young Adults
The Space Between
Parking lots and police
Nested Contexts of Reception
Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life
Relations Between the Generations in Immigrant Families
The Constitution Free Zone in the United States
Multigenerational Punishment
The Burden of Deportation on Children in Mexican Immigrant Families
Automobility, Immobility, Altermobility
Awakening to a Nightmare
Legal Violence
Housing and neighborhood quality among undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |