Language and literacy in refugee families

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The work Language and literacy in refugee families represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Language and literacy in refugee families

Statement of responsibility

Chatwara Suwannamai Duran

Creator

• Duran, Chatwara Suwannamai

Author

• Duran, Chatwara Suwannamai

Subject

• Language in families -- Social aspects -- Arizona | Phoenix
• Linguistic minorities -- Language
• Karen (Southeast Asian people) -- Ethnic identity

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Language and globalization
• Online access with purchase: Springer

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

410

Index

index present

LC call number

P40.5.L56

LC item number

D87 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Language and globalization