Language and Literacy in Refugee Families

AvChatwara Suwannamai Duran

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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’.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-19
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:451 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Language and Globalization
Antal sidor:226
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137587541

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.