{"id":11288,"date":"2015-11-04T21:23:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-phenomenon-of-immigrant-children-becoming\/"},"modified":"2015-11-04T21:23:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:23:03","slug":"the-phenomenon-of-immigrant-children-becoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-phenomenon-of-immigrant-children-becoming\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The phenomenon of immigrant children becoming \u201cbrokers\u201d of their families\u2019 new culture is well-documented and studied. Children translate phone conversations, documents and even road signs for their parents, which throws traditional family dynamics for a loop\u2014a point that both Cuentos and Gonzalez brought up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKids run into problems with technology where they need their parents, but their parents can\u2019t help them. As kids become more involved with technology, the parents see it as the magnet that pulls the kids away from the family,\u201d said Cuentos. He referred to the new relationship between a parent and his or her broker-child as \u201casymmetrical acculturation,\u201d where a child becomes accustomed to a new culture faster than a parent.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cuentos, Latino parents often struggle to feel in control of their children\u2019s activities, and children have taken on more responsibility than they may be ready for. Technology brings a whole new dimension to this challenge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2015-11-04-how-edtech-should-unite-latino-families-instead-of-driving-them-apart\">How Edtech Should Unite Latino Families\u2014Instead of Driving Them Apart | EdSurge News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>also problematizes the metaphoric \u201cdigital natives\u201d and \u201cdigital immigrants\u201d generational nomenclature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phenomenon of immigrant children becoming \u201cbrokers\u201d of their families\u2019 new culture is well-documented and studied. Children translate phone conversations, documents and even road signs for their parents, which throws traditional family dynamics for a loop\u2014a point that both Cuentos and Gonzalez brought up. \u201cKids run into problems with technology where they need their parents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2W4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}