Overview
- Brings together research on literacy practices during migration and in post-migration settlement
- Includes informal as well as formal contexts, such as homes, job searching, and practicing for a driving test
- Understands literacy as a social practice, with power and heterogeneity as central elements
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers insights into questions related to mobility, literacy learning and literacy practices of adult and adolescent migrants. The authors address learning and use of literacies among adults and adolescents in both temporary and more permanent post-migration settlements and in various contexts, exploring spatial as well as temporal dimensions of literacies and power. The formal and informal educational settings examined include state-mandated schools, community settings, and libraries, and the chapters offer insights into the complex relations between literacies and mobility, as well as a range of perspectives on language use and language learning. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers in fields including education and literacy, applied linguistics, language education and migration studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Annika Norlund Shaswar is a Senior Lecturer of Language Teaching and Learning at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include multilingual literacy, basic literacy education in linguistically heterogeneous contexts, second language development of adults and language learning strategies.
Jenny Rosén is Associate Professor in Swedish as a Second Language in the Department of Language Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests include multilingualism, literacy and diversity in educational settings.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literacies in the Age of Mobility
Book Subtitle: Literacy Practices of Adult and Adolescent Migrants
Editors: Annika Norlund Shaswar, Jenny Rosén
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83317-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83316-9Published: 16 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83319-0Published: 17 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83317-6Published: 15 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 291
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Sociology of Education, Multilingualism, Education, general