The succeeders: how immigrant youth are transforming what it means to belong in America

“He Was Able to Rely on Me”: Negotiating the Sibling Intragenerational Bargain among Latino First-generation College Student Families

“…In the sibling intragenerational bargain, LFGC students are motivated to succeed academically as a means of contributing to the family's intragenerational mobility and to repay sibling familial sacrifices and/or sibling educational support. The sibling intragenerational bargain extends prior literature (e.g., Ceja 2006;Flores 2018Flores , 2021Pérez and McDonough 2008) by ( 1) examining how sibling dynamics (e.g., birth order and differences in sibling attainment) shape negotiations of educational support and by (2) centering reciprocity processes to include the contributions of older and younger siblings beyond the college choice process. It is important to consider the complexity of sibling dynamics over the life course to assess the availability of resources within families.…”

“…Expanding on frameworks documenting how elder siblings' educational support uniquely transforms familial relationships (e.g., Flores 2018Flores , 2021, the sibling intragenerational bargain broadens the scope of sibling care work to illuminate two distinct social processes. First, the sibling intragenerational bargain pays close attention to how sibling dynamics (including birth order and differences in sibling educational attainment) shape the negotiation of sibling educational support.…”

“…It is important to consider the relational components of sibling relationships to capture changes in sibling educational support over time, including beyond the college choice process. Though prior sibling care work research emphasizes the hierarchal nature of sibling relationships where older siblings are givers of educational support and younger siblings are receivers of support (Ceja 2006;Flores 2018Flores , 2021Pérez and McDonough 2008), the sibling intragenerational bargain illuminates how sibling support transforms from hierarchal to more egalitarian exchanges during shared life transitions like college. For LFGC families, the sibling intragenerational bargain posits that older Latino siblings regardless of college experience aid intragenerational mobility by actively supporting the educational trajectories of younger LFGC siblings.…”

States of faḍl or stating faḍl: On the value of indebtedness for Iraqi exiles in Jordan

“…In examining the peculiar and liminal life that faḍl occupies amidst the failure or absence of other forms of exchange and relation, the expectations faḍl (dis)organizes produce valuable citizenship claims from the vantage point of the Iraqi exilic experience. These aspirations and claims could be to extract recognition and rights from the state (Isin, 2004; Lazar & Nuijten, 2013; Paz, 2018) but could also be achieved through appeals to emergent, valuable sites or practices outside of the state (Flores, 2021; Lazar, 2013), while still employing its repertoires and logics. Regardless of the site of these claims, they show how both exile and faḍl , located at the margins of statecraft and exchange relations (Das & Poole, 2004), are entangled in a myriad of co‐constitutive ways in articulating valuable claims toward citizenship that render livelihood in exile sustainable and manageable.…”

“I’ve Lived Everything They Are Trying to Teach Me”: Latinx Immigrant Youth’s Ambivalent Educational Mobility in White Evangelical Universities

“…Smith 2006). Moreover, these youth will often position their educational success as dependent, and shared with, their families and social networks (Flores 2021). In this way, educational success is invested with not only a feeling of deep familial and collective commitment, but serves as proof of migration's collective value to one's loved ones.…”