Role-based identity development in Latinx adolescents from immigrant families: The development of language broker role identity

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1-2022

Abstract

Identity research on adolescents from immigrant families focuses primarily on ethnic identities, yet other forms of social identities have been neglected in the literature. Specifically, the adoption of different roles can vary one’s self-concept and manifest in the construction of distinct role-based identities. We examine how parental ethnic identity and parenting can lead to the creation of the role identity of a “language broker” among Mexican-origin early adolescents who engage in translation for their English-limited parents. Further, we discuss how cultural values may influence the formulation of role identities and how possessing multiple identities can collectively contribute to adolescent identity development.

Keywords

Adolescent, Identity development, Role identities, Latinx, Immigrant families, Language brokering

Discipline

Family, Life Course, and Society | Multicultural Psychology | Social Psychology

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Re/Formation and Identity

Editor

Deborah J. Johnson, Susan S. Chuang, Jenny Glozman

First Page

159

Last Page

180

ISBN

9783030864262

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-030-86426-2_8

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Cham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86426-2_8

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