Overview
- Strives to understand contested language ideologies, literacy practices and language learning trajectories among newly-arrived refugee children and their families
- Challenges the view that refugees are illiterate and socioeconomically disadvantaged
- Explores refugees’ transnational literacies, multilingual capital, and accumulated cross-cultural knowledge
Part of the book series: Language and Globalization (LAGL)
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“Truly an important read at a time when refugees are increasing globally. Duran’s impressive and intimate portrait of recently arrived Karenni refugee families details their experiences as they negotiate the complex and contradictory multilingual, multimodal and multimedia linguistic practices of their new lives. The reader is drawn into the emotions of the families as they “look back and move forward” as minoritized transnational members of their new communities.” (Theresa McGinnis, Associate Professor, Hofstra University, USA)
“Transnational migration due to war, conflict, and economic despair is one of the defining human crises of our time. Based on her in-depth, longitudinal, ethnographic multiple-case study situated within one such refugee community, the Karenni (from Burma/Myanmar) in southwestern United States, Duran provides an illuminating and vivid account of in-school and out-of-school socialization into and through the multilingual language and literacy tools, practices, networks, and repertoires of this resourceful and resilient community.” (Patricia A. Duff, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada)
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Book Title: Language and Literacy in Refugee Families
Authors: Chatwara Suwannamai Duran
Series Title: Language and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58756-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58754-1Published: 19 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95458-2Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58756-5Published: 24 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-7506
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 226
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Migration, Globalization, Literacy, Applied Linguistics