Language and Literacy in Refugee Families
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Language and Literacy in Refugee Families

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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.

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Yes, you can access Language and Literacy in Refugee Families by Chatwara Suwannamai Duran in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Sociolinguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
9781137587565
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Sociolinguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Contents
  5. Symbols Used in Transcription
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, and Literacy
  9. 2: ‘But, We Are Karenni. We Are Not Burmese.’ Historical Contexts and Lived Experiences of Karenni Refugees from Burma
  10. 3: The Three Families
  11. 4: Life, Liberty, and (the Pursuit of) English
  12. 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy
  13. 6: Digital Literacy in the Karenni Families
  14. 7: Revisiting Transnationalism and Key Resources
  15. 8: Conclusion and Implications
  16. References
  17. Index