Immigrant Latino Family

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Immigrant Family

Challenges, goals, mobility.

Brokering practices.

Marginality and disadvantage.

Lower status of immigrant. Lower position in society.

New media consumption: computer, internet, mobile.

What is the role of immigrants parents as guides and regulators regarding new media uses? youth participation in new media environment, practices?

Limited previous experiences with new media, with digital technologies. Sometimes with very limited literacies even in their own language.

Rules, regulations, managament, rewards.

How does new media use and environment at home create a particular kind of assimilation pathway? a particular kind of acculturation? Not the media alone but the uses of it, the parenting styles.

The world of the home. Position of power of parents, and position of power of children. PRactices, discourses, tools. IT is also a world, and a very important one for immigrant families given their language, culture, food, etc.

New media practices and skills. How are they distributed at home? What kind of skills? searching? consumption? Playing? Who has the skills? How do they use them for assimilating?

Is the internet an alien world for the parents? an American world? Did they know they could connect with families in mexico? did they take advantage of that?

Media incorporation shaped by class? culture? education? family identity? family reputation?


Do they use new media for personal, familial, and socially meaningful ends? For persanal yes, not that much for familial and social.

PAtterns of cultural consumption.


Segmented Assimilation and Acculturation

Assimilation to specific segments of the US society. Different acculturation styles and parent-children relationships.

Parent-youth differential acculturation has been studied by immigration scholars.


Analysis and Findings

  • Social class backgrounds frame and transform individual actions and process of assimilation.
  • American culture individualism renders invisible the key role of institutions. System is not fair, and not neutral.
  • Inequality is shaping the future, opportunities, and pathways since early age.
  • injustices inherent in our existing socio-economic arrangements
  • upward mobility? downward?
  • Material and social inequalities that shape immigrant youth live in the U.S
  • second generation advantage? for some yes, as in the case of Gabriela and Inara.
  • the problem of inequality and the disparities in wealth and access.
  • Discrepancies in access to economic, social, cultural, material, human resources.
  • new media continue to contribute to produciton and reproduction of class, gender, racial

ineqaliities in U.S.


Latino/Hispanic family

It has been studied in the US by psycologists, sociologists, educators, and learning scientists.

Extensive literature on Latino parental control and youth development, has focused on the cultural aspects of latino parenting, especially in goals such as: familismo (familism), respeto (respect), and educación (moral education).