Children of immigrants and social mobility in officially bilingual societies

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amado Alarcón ◽  
Luis Garzón
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Local Languages

This article analyses the role of language in the intra- and intergenerational social mobility of Argentinean, Colombian and Moroccan immigrants in Catalonia, an officially bilingual society. We start from the notion that the knowledge and use of and attachment to local languages are affected by the range and importance of opportunities for social mobility offered by the host society. Empirical evidence is based on 45 biographical interviews with members of first generation immigrant groups and their children (raised in Catalonia and currently living outside the family home). We show that the attitudes towards and use of the Catalan language depend on expectations and constraints with regard to upward social mobility. This article questions the causal relationship between languages spoken and job opportunities, postulated by means of the theory of human capital whereby language is only considered as a competitive advantage on the basis of its communicative value.

scholarly journals The Impact of Owner Gender in Family Businesses in Indonesia Liliana Dewi, Kazia Laturette, and I Gusti Bagus Yos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Dewi ◽  
Kazia Laturette ◽  
I Gusti Bagus Yosia Wiryakusuma
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Female Leaders ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact

There are differences in the way people perceive the role of women and men in business. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of male or female leaders on two business families in Indonesia. The success of the family company cannot be separated from the role of the first generation in trusting future generations to continue their family business. A qualitative approach was used, where the data were collected through interviews with two family companies with different generations of successors. One family company has a female successor generation and another family company has a male successor. The findings showed that the first generation trusted from an early age and involved the second generation in the family business, whether their children were girls or boys. In fact, all succeeded in taking over the baton of leadership. An interesting finding is that even though the next generation is female and handles welding, which is more commonly done by men, thanks to the trust given by their parents, this next generation would be more masculine in order to gain legitimacy from employees who have worked for a long time in the company. This is as good as the next generation of men in other family companies. Keywords: family business, gender, first-generation roles, succession of success

The Family

2013 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
James Rose
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Patriarchal Power

This chapter focuses on the dynamics of Leatherface's family in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). From the point at which Cook first sees Hitchhiker in the headlights, a family structure is implied and, to a certain extent, played out during the climatic scenes of Sally Hardesty's torture: Cook has taken on the role of the father who goes out to work to earn money for his family, Hitchhiker is the wayward teenager who refuses to do as he is told, while Leatherface is the mother who is stuck in the kitchen and subject to some domestic abuse from her ‘husband’ Cook. Such a dynamic suggests a patriarchal power structure within this family of cannibals. While this power structure is evident during Cook's arrival at the family home, it slowly starts to shift when the family begins their torture of Sally. For the most part, Cook seems simultaneously to be horrified by the acts being committed at the same time as appearing to enjoy them.

The role of grandparents when parents part or die: some reflections on the mythical decline of the extended family

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL THOMPSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Emotional Closeness ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Generational Study ◽  
Life Story Interviews ◽  
Statistical Trends

Belief that the extended family is in terminal decline has proved to be a remarkably persistent myth. It is currently being revived as a result of recent statistical trends. The belief has been closely connected to sociological enquiries undertaken over the course of the century. The validity of the belief, and in particular the significance of grandparents within the extended family, is explored in two sets of life story interviews recently undertaken with adults in Britain; one set are people in their thirties who had become step-children, and the second set participants in a multi-generational study of social mobility. The analysis addresses questions of contact after parental loss, sources of support within the family, the involvement of grandparents, the importance of co-residence, conflict, emotional closeness and communication within a family.

The Curious Circumstances of Flora Tristan’s Death

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-154
Author(s):  
Máire Fedelma Cross
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Flora Tristan ◽  
The Family ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Busy Schedule

How Jules Puech obtained the papers of Flora Tristan that were on her person when she died in November 1844 in Bordeaux is vital to show the intergenerational transmission of knowledge of ideas and papers among activists that has shaped the construction of this double biography. Until the 1980s, Puech’s papers were kept by his descendants in the family home in Borieblanque, unlike those of Flora Tristan which were removed immediately after her death to Lyon and beyond. Borieblanque held vital clues about the custodial role of Eleonore Blanc, the spiritual daughter who inherited Flora Tristan’s papers. Puech’s account to his family of where Flora Tristan fitted into his busy schedule is invaluable as we read of his response to the opening opportunities from journal editors asking for further publications on Flora Tristan and of the complex network of his acquaintances in activist and university circles that led him to find the Blanc family and their activist connections in the republican and socialist circles of the late nineteenth century.

Conclusion

Kids at Work ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Emir Estrada
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Generation College

The conclusion tackles an important and controversial question rooted in our normative and privileged notions of childhood life: Should children work to help support the family? In answering this question, the conclusion shows how the social construction of childhood defined as a period of freedom and play has been cemented in the minds of people for almost a century. Even the families interviewed for this book struggled to see their family work arrangement as “normal” and fully acceptable to others. This chapter returns to the initial queries about childhood, family work relations, intergenerational family dynamics, and ethnic entrepreneurship and asks more questions for future research, keeping as a core analysis the role of children as economic contributors in the family beyond the street vending occupation. Kids at Work, in a way, also tells the story of many more first-generation college students of diverse racial backgrounds who did not have “normal” childhoods because they too had to work to help the family.

Life Events and Portfolio Rebalancing of the Family Home

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Tracey West ◽  
Andrew C. Worthington
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Injury Death ◽  
Portfolio Rebalancing ◽  
The Family ◽  
Financial Planners ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The Impact

This article investigates the impacts of financial shocks on the role of the family home in asset portfolios of Australian households using longitudinal data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. The life events considered are serious illness or injury, death of a spouse, fired or made redundant, and separation from a spouse. We use a static and dynamic Tobit models to assess the impact and duration of the life events on the portfolio share of the family home. The insights gained from this study may be important for financial planners, as adverse wealth outcomes may be hedged through better financial education, insurance products, or general financial preparedness.

Psychotherapy in a Multicultural Society

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Ilhan Kizilhan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Treatment ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Full Consideration

In the psychotherapeutic treatment of migrants from family-oriented societies, cultural identity and the role of the family are very significant. The different biographies mean that the family-oriented ideas of the first generation differ from those of the second and third generations in the strength of the cultural identity which they feel and the bonds which they have with traditional values. In addition to the effects of generation and cultural conflicts, any psychotherapeutic treatment of these groups is made more difficult by two further aspects: namely, language barriers and the different way of understanding illness and coping with it. The systemic perspective with a systematic involvement of the family in the treatment and use of family-oriented and cultural resources, including a full consideration of ethical aspects, are vital for an adequate therapy.

The Family Unit and International Migration: The Perceptions of Italian Immigrant Children

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
The Family ◽  
Intergenerational Ties ◽  
Migratory Process

This paper examines the centrality of the family, both nuclear and extended in the Italian postwar migratory process to Canada and in their post-migratory adjustment. In a series of interviews with first generation immigrant children, two themes emerged: the necessity of keeping the nuclear family together and the importance of intergenerational ties and commitments. The respondents tended to view their parents’ decision to migrate as one primarily motivated by familial considerations. That is, it was seen as a decision based on their future as a family, whether for reunification, or for greater opportunities for the children. For these respondents, family ties have not only survived migration but have been fortified by it.

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