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Language and Literacy in Refugee Families

Chatwara Suwannamai Duran (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-58754-1 (ISBN)

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This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis’. With a focus on language and literacy practices among recently-arrived Karenni refugee families in the United States, this book explores the multilingual repertoires and accumulated literacies acquired through the course of the refugees' multiple movements. Through the lens of transnationalism, the author emphasizes that despite their numerous struggles, the refugees daily and diligently use and strategize their old, emerging, and evolving linguistic and literacy resources to make the best of their resettlement. This book will shed light on the language and literacy practices among transnational and diasporic communities, minoritized or marginalized groups for researchers in these fields as well as practitioners and resettlement agencies working with refugee populations.

Chatwara Suwannamai Duran is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English, University of Houston, USA. She has worked with Karenni refugees since 2009, completing her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Language and Literacy at Arizona State University in 2012. As an ethnographer, she utilizes multiple qualitative methods to explore language learning trajectories and literacy practices among immigrant and refugee families in the United States.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, and Literacy.- Chapter 2: “But, we are Karenni. We are not Burmese.”: Historical Contexts and Lived Experiences of Karenni Refugees from Burma.- Chapter 3: The Three Families.- Chapter 4: Life, Liberty, and (the Pursuit of) English.- Chapter 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy.- Chapter 6: Digital Literacy in the Karenni Families.- Chapter 7: Revisiting Transnationalism and Key Resources.- Chapter 8: Conclusion and Implications.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Language and Globalization
Zusatzinfo	15 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Applied Linguistics • diasporic communities • Essay • Globalization • India • International Relations • Karenni People • Language Policy • Linguistics • Literacy • Migration • minority languages • Nation • Politics • Refugee crisis • Social Science • Sociolinguistics • transnationalism
ISBN-10	1-137-58754-7 / 1137587547
ISBN-13	978-1-137-58754-1 / 9781137587541
Zustand	Neuware