Language and Literacy in Refugee Families

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Chatwara Suwannamai Duran

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Language and Globalization

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

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December 19th, 2016

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Chatwara Suwannamai Duran

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Professional & Vocational

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1st ed. 2017

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15 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 226 p. 18 illus., 15 illus. in color.

Pages

226

Series

Language and Globalization

Dimensions

148x210x20

ISBN-13

9781137587541

Product ID

25583640

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