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FROM CONVERSATION TO CONVERSION: CHILDREN’S EFFORTS TO TRANSLATE THEIR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES’ SOCIAL NETWORKS INTO COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
by
Vikki Sara Katz
______________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMMUNICATION)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Vikki Sara Katz
Object Description
| Title | From conversation to conversion: children's efforts to translate their immigrant families' social networks into community connections |
| Author | Katz, Vikki Sara |
| Author email | vkatz@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Communication |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-06-28 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-07-24 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Ball-Rokeach, Sandra |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Cody, Michael McLaughlin, Margaret Rueda, Robert |
| Abstract | Although children are generally absent from research on immigration and adaptation, this research demonstrates that children of immigrants make daily contributions to their families' community connections. Immigrant Latino parents in a Los Angeles community indicated close connections to friends and extended family in their local area. However, the homogenous nature of these interpersonal relationships effectively constrained Spanish monolingual parents' knowledge of available community resources. Children emerged as crucial linkages to community information resources and institutions for their parents. Children brokered parents' connections to other residents by translating conversations, and connecting with a wide range of media for their parents as translators and interpreters of everything from telephone calls to newsletters mailed to the home.; This research focuses on children's brokering of community information resources in family and peer networks, and in local media, and their efforts to convert these resources into connections with important community institutions for their parents: schools, health care, and social service institutions.; This research employed communication infrastructure theory (Kim & Ball-Rokeach, 2006), integrated with domestic infrastructure (Livingstone, 2002) and social capital theories (Bourdieu, 1986; Putnam, 2000) to inform a multi-level, multi-method investigation of child brokering activities in larger community context. Survey analyses, interviews with child brokers and their parents, interviews with service providers in community schools, health care, and social service institutions, as well as field observations and site visits with families, collectively inform the findings in this project. |
| Keyword | immigration; family; translating; brokering; latinos; community institutions |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m650 |
| Rights | Katz, Vikki Sara |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Katz-20070724 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Katz-20070724.pdf |
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| Full text | FROM CONVERSATION TO CONVERSION: CHILDREN’S EFFORTS TO TRANSLATE THEIR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES’ SOCIAL NETWORKS INTO COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS by Vikki Sara Katz ______________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMMUNICATION) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Vikki Sara Katz |
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