Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods (eBook)

The Politics of Belonging

Inmaculada Mª García-Sánchez (Autor)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-32389-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods Documenting the everyday lives of Moroccan immigrant children in Spain, this in-depth study considers how its subjects navigate the social and political landscapes of family, neighborhood peer groups, and the institutions of their adopted country. Garc a-S nchez compels us to rethink theories of language and racialization by offering a linguistic anthropological approach that illuminates the politics of childhood in Spain s growing communities of migrants. The author demonstrates that these Moroccan children walk a tightrope between sameness and difference, simultaneously participating in the cultural life of their immigrant community and that of a host society that is deeply ambivalent about contemporary migratory trends. The author evaluates the contemporary state of research on immigrant children and explores the dialectical relations between young Moroccan immigrants everyday social interactions, and the broader cultural logic and socio-political discourses arising from integration and inclusion of the Muslim communities. Her work focuses in particular on children s modes of communication with teachers, peers, family members, friends, doctors, and religious figures in a society where Muslim immigrants are subject to increasing state surveillance. The project underscores the central relevance of studying immigrant children s day-to-day experience and linguistic praxis in tracing how the forces at work in transnational, diasporic settings have an impact on their sense of belonging, charting the links between the immediate contexts of their daily lives and their emerging processes of identification.

Autor

Inmaculada Mª García-Sánchez is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, where her research focuses on language and the immigrant experience; language and culture in educational contexts; language and discrimination; and language socialization in immigrant communities. Her work on immigrant children has been published in journals such as Language and Communication, Linguistics and Education, Pragmatics, and Multicultural Perspectives, and she contributed to The Handbook of Language Socialization (Wiley Blackwell, 2012). García-Sánchez has received numerous awards for her work, and in 2012 was granted a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments viii

1 Introduction 1

2 Moros en la Costa: The Moroccan Immigrant Diaspora in Spain 28

3 Learning About Children's Lives: A Note On Methodology 61

4 Moroccan Immigrant Childhoods in Vallenuevo 88

5 The Public School: Ground Zero for the Politics of Inclusion 125

6 Learning How to Be Moroccans in Vallenuevo: Arabic and the Politics of Identity 183

7 Becoming Translators of Culture: Moroccan Immigrant Children's Experiences as Language Brokers 221

8 Heteroglossic Games: Imagining Selves and Voicing Possible Futures 257

9 Conclusion 289

Appendix 1: Working with Video-Recorded Discourse Data 307

Appendix 2: Arabic Transliteration Symbols 310

References 311

Index 349

Rezensionen

"Overall, Garcia-Sanchez presents linguistic analysis and data in a way that balances sophistication of argument with clarity and accessibility to those without extensive linguistic training. As a result, this monograph should be appealing both to seasoned scholars and undergraduate students in linguistics and linguistic anthropology, as well as to cultural anthropologists and social scientists interested in Europe, migration, and childhood." (Anthropos, 1 October 2015)

"...García-Sánchez's book adds to the current literature on socialization, identity construction, and immigration by showing how these larger issues can have direct impact on how the children of immigrants perceive themselves as accepted members of their societies." (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 May 2015)

"Richly ethnographic, Garcia-Sanchez offers us a penetrating
view of the politics of belonging shaped through the everyday
interactions of Moroccan adolescents living in Spain; a must-read
for anyone concerned with social inequality and
discrimination."

Barbra Meek, University of Michigan

"Theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically
grounded, this beautiful book offers new insights into the politics
of belonging. Garcia-Sanchez takes on critical issues of our
times--immigration, racism, multilingualism,
multiculturalism--by listening to the everyday voices of
Moroccan children in Spain. Her creative perspective provides
startling conclusions with important political
implications."

Ayala Fader, Fordham University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: African & Middle Eastern Anthropology • Anthropologie • Anthropologie / Afrika, Naher Osten • Anthropology • Linguistic Anthropology • Linguistics • Linguistische Anthropologie • Sociolinguistics • Soziolinguistik • Sprachwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-118-32389-0 / 1118323890
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-32389-2 / 9781118323892