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Labor of Love: Latino Mixed-Status Family Emotional Landscapes

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Abstract

This study draws on intensive ethnographic engagement with mixed-status families and their wider community circles to explore children’s material and immaterial contributions to family life and how they learn and practice emotional labor through observing and participating in family and community activities alongside their mothers, whose labor for organizations and schools constitutes an unrecognized form of intensive mothering.

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