Liminal Cultural Work in Family Childcare: Latino Immigrant Family Childcare Providers and Bicultural Childrearing in the United States, 2002-2004

Autor/in	Uttal, Lynet
Titel	Liminal Cultural Work in Family Childcare: Latino Immigrant Family Childcare Providers and Bicultural Childrearing in the United States, 2002-2004
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 46 (2010) 6, S.729-740 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
Schlagwörter	Hispanic Americans; Immigrants; Child Caregivers; Biculturalism; Child Rearing; Behavior Standards; Social Behavior; Child Development; Power Structure; Acculturation; Caregiver Training; Self Esteem; Personal Autonomy; Values; Cultural Enrichment; Cultural Maintenance; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Bikulturalität; Kindererziehung; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Kindesentwicklung; Akkulturation; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Individuelle Autonomie; Wertbegriff
Abstract	Immigrants find themselves in a liminal state of limbo between two societies. In this zone, competing cultural ideas coexist. This essay examines how Latino immigrant family childcare providers in the United States questioned US norms of childrearing and how they engaged in liminal cultural work to produce a bicultural childrearing. They are exposed to US norms through family childcare certification programmes that they were legally required to participate in, in order to receive the accreditation required to care for young children in their homes. They were simultaneously critical and embracing of US mainstream ideas of childrearing. Two contested areas for them are the emphasis on individual child development and the levelling of authority relations between adults and children. Their traditional values are absent from the training programmes, yet they develop a process of selective adaptation which both maintains and discards traditional ideas of childrearing and integrates them with some of the new ideas they learn in the US. The liminal cultural work that immigrant family childcare workers do is both for themselves and for the children and the families for whom they provide care. The providers experience a process of ongoing liminal cultural work. (Contains 17 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10