Past research demonstrates that children of immigrants serve as language and cultural brokers for their parents. However, much of this work centers on immigrants with protected legal status. Drawing on thirty in‐depth interviews with undocumented college students, I conceptualize the phenomenon of legal brokering to capture how undocumented students share legal resources with their parents. In addition to this conceptualization, I find that four factors shaped how students served as legal brokers: (1) online platforms; (2) institutional support; (3) networks of support; and (4) involvement in immigrant rights organizations. These findings advance theoretical frameworks in segmented assimilation theory, sociolegal studies, and immigrant illegality.

Today, immigrants and their families live in an era of exclusion. Threats of a southern border wall, increased detentions and deportations, false narratives of Mexicans as "rapists," attempts to eliminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and the implementation of penalties for immigrants who use social services are just some examples of the hostile climate immigrant families face. A growing body of literature suggests that children of immigrants help their parents in their transition to the US society as language, cultural, and legal brokers, which generally refers to when youth translate for and/or share resources with their immigrant kin. In this paper, I review the research on contemporary children of immigrants as "brokers" and how the punitive social context influences the way brokering takes place in immigrant families. I conclude with suggestions for future research in the study of brokering in immigrant families. K E Y W O R D S brokering, children of immigrants, immigrant families 1 | INTRODUCTION Sociologists have widely explored immigrants' adaptation to the US. Within this work, scholars highlight barriers that immigrants can face in their transition to US society. Such challenges often include learning the English language, accessing housing, applying for work, and acculturating to new cultural norms. A growing body of scholarship suggests that children of immigrants can assist their parents with these barriers (

Past research demonstrates that familial and community support can aid the academic success of Latino/a students. However, few studies explore how older siblings influence their younger siblings' education trajectory including primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with Latino/a first-generation college students at a large research university in Southern California, I find that older siblings assist their younger family members by (a) choosing schools, (b) assisting with reading comprehension, (c) helping with homework assignments, and (d) post-high school preparation. In doing do, they demystify norms and rules about education and attempt to position their loved ones on a path of upward mobility. I capture the labor Latino/a children of immigrants provide to their families and how these contributions can result in tensions between parents and children. Findings advance scholarship on intra-immigrant family brokering, Latino/a families, and education.

We carried out a 200 generation Evolve and Resequence (E&R) experiment initiated from an outbred diploid recombined 18-way synthetic base population. Replicate populations were evolved at large effective population sizes (>105 individuals), exposed to several different chemical challenges over 12 weeks of evolution, and whole-genome resequenced. Weekly forced outcrossing resulted in an average between adjacent-gene per cell division recombination rate of ∼0.0008. Despite attempts to force weekly sex, roughly half of our populations evolved cheaters and appear to be evolving asexually. Focusing on seven chemical stressors and 55 total evolved populations that remained sexual we observed large fitness gains and highly repeatable patterns of genome-wide haplotype change within chemical challenges, with limited levels of repeatability across chemical treatments. Adaptation appears highly polygenic with almost the entire genome showing significant and consistent patterns of haplotype change with little evidence for long range linkage disequilibrium in a subset of populations for which we sequenced haploid clones. That is, almost the entire genome is under selection or drafting with selected sites. At any given locus adaptation was almost always dominated by one of the 18 founder’s alleles, with that allele varying spatially and between treatments, suggesting that selection acts primarily on rare variants private to a founder or haplotype blocks harboring multiple mutations.

Objective The objective of this study is to examine how adult children of undocumented immigrants manage parental illegality in Latinx immigrant families. Background There are 16.7 million people who live with at least one undocumented family member in the U.S. today. Scholars have documented how children of undocumented immigrants can help navigate the negative consequences of illegality in their families. However, less is known about how the immigration status of these youth shapes the support they provide to their undocumented parents. Method This study draws on 41 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with 19 DACAmented and 22 U.S.‐born citizen college students (18–27) who had at least one undocumented parent. Interviews were collected via snowball sampling technique at a large research university in Southern California. Results The findings suggest that citizen and DACAmented college students engage in distinct strategies when mediating illegality for their undocumented parents. Citizens attempt to leverage their protected legal status to help their undocumented parents become Lawful Permanent Residents and step in during situations where threats of deportation are imminent. DACAmented young adults draw on their experience with legal precarity to help their undocumented parents navigate punishments associated with their immigration status. Conclusion This research uncovers how parents' precarious legal status contributes to the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage among citizen and DACAmented young adults—and how these youths try to mediate the harms of illegality. Implications The strategies adult children of undocumented immigrants implement to negotiate illegality in their families highlights the need for policy addressing the legal vulnerability of undocumented and mixed status families.