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Children Challenging Borders

December 24, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

The Physical and Psychological Journeys that the Children of Immigrants Make for their Families By Alexia Raynal Click here for PDF version. {Note: This is the sixth in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders, the borders here being between countries, between families, and between generations.} [print_link] [email_link] One summer morning about two years ago, as I was finding my seat on a plane in New York that would take me to Mexico, I noticed a group of elementary-school […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: borders, child labor, children, family roles, immigrant bargain, immigration, Joanna Dreby, Mexican-Americans, Robert C. Smith, second generation, traveling, unaccompanied minors

Children as Labor and “Parent Tax”

September 1, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Last weekend a teacher friend of mine paraphrased, half jokingly and while laying on a deck by a lake, the idea of having children as a strategy to produce free labor. This is not a new idea, but it reminded me of an article that Zeteo published last spring. In “Parenting: Infinite Responsibility,” William Eaton describes different scenarios of this same idea: There have been and there remain economic and political reasons to have children—for their labor and loyalty and for the alliances that can […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: child labor, childhood, children, labor, parenting

Child labor now and then

May 5, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

As the Zeteo Editorial Collective prepares for its new spring issue, I have been wondering about the ways in which our authors have written about and framed children and childhood. Some of then have done so marginally, as they delve into their own topics. But for others, the analysis of childhood as a particular time and place is at the very heart of the discussion. Such is the case of James L. Hughes in his piece “History, Method and Representation: Photo-Elicitation and […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: child labor, childhood, children, Lewis Hine, photo-elicitation

History, Method, Representation

November 19, 2013 by William Eaton

Click for pdf. History, Method, and Representation Photo-Elicitation and Lewis Hine’s Photographs of Child Labor in Chester County, South Carolina By James L. Hughes James L. Hughes is a documentary filmmaker, instructor in American Studies and an academic advisor in Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Whatever violence may be done to the letter of their collective experience, the spirit of that experience remains intact and true. It is their notion of themselves, their […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: child labor, Lewis Hine, photo-elicitation