Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides direction and fodder for the next wave of research on language brokering. It begins with frameworks of language brokering. The book also provides a developmental perspective to language brokering during childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood. It presents findings on immigrant adolescents from the former Soviet Union in Israel who experience language brokering as burdensome and as negative for family relationships. The book also presents qualitative findings on Arab American emerging adults and their experiences with language brokering in the United States, and with confronting anti-Arab and anti-Muslim discriminations both in public and at home. It focuses on applied contexts and settings. The book explores how findings from neuroscience may apply to language brokers and to individuals when language brokering. It investigates how language brokering is experienced by emerging adults.