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Lilian Cibils

    Immigration, motherhood and parental involvement
    • 2017

      Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The study and its context introduction -- The big picture : immigration, vulnerability and marginalization -- A situated theory of justice : the significance of structure, process and agency -- Seven women : seven stories -- Narratives and counter narratives of parental involvement -- The discourse of parental involvement and the ideologies of motherhood -- Polyphony: master and counter stories -- Formal inclusion/informal exclusion -- Belonging and the new cultural script -- Linguistic resources : centrality, contingency and invisibility -- Mediated interactions : translation, interpretation and power asymmetry -- From vulnerability to communal agency : finding, developing and becoming resources -- Critical linguistic agency -- Immigration as a gendered experience : the crucial resource of physical mobility -- Becoming a resource : the articulation of agency and structure -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: educational motherwork beyond grade school -- References -- Index

      Immigration, motherhood and parental involvement