García-Sánchez Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods

The Politics of Belonging
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-32392-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture

This revealing analysis of everyday language use among Moroccanimmigrant children in Spain explores their cultural and linguisticlife-worlds as they develop a hybrid, yet coherent, sense ofidentity in their multilingual communities. The author shows howthey adapt to the local ambivalence toward Muslim culture andincreased surveillance by Spanish authorities.
* Offers ground-breaking research from linguistic anthropologycharting the politics of childhood in Muslim immigrant communitiesin Spain
* Illuminates the contemporary debates concerning assimilationand alienation in Europe's immigrant Muslim and North Africanpopulations
* Provides an integrated blend of theory and empiricalethnographic data
* Enriches recent research on immigrant children with analyses oftheir sense of belonging, communicative practices, andemerging processes of identification

Autoren/Hrsg.

García-Sánchez, Inmaculada Mª

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments viii
1. Introduction 1
2. Moros en la Costa: The Moroccan Immigrant Diaspora in Spain28
3. Learning About Children's Lives: A Note On Methodology61
4. Moroccan Immigrant Childhoods in Vallenuevo 88
5. The Public School: Ground Zero for the Politics of Inclusion125
6. Learning How to Be Moroccans in Vallenuevo: Arabic and thePolitics of Identity 183
7. Becoming Translators of Culture: Moroccan ImmigrantChildren's Experiences as Language Brokers 221
8. Heteroglossic Games: Imagining Selves and Voicing PossibleFutures 257
9. Conclusion 289
Appendix 1: Working with Video-Recorded Discourse Data 307
Appendix 2: Arabic Transliteration Symbols 310
References 311
Index 349

Über Autor(innen)

Inmaculada M¯a García-Sánchez isAssistant Professor of Anthropology at Temple University,Philadelphia, USA, where her research focuses on language and theimmigrant experience; language and culture in educational contexts;language and racialization; and language socialization in immigrantcommunities. Her work on immigrant children has been published injournals such as Linguistics and Education, Pragmatics, andMulticultural Perspectives, and she contributed to TheHandbook of Language Socialization (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).García-Sánchez has received numerous awards for her work,and in 2012 was granted a postdoctoral fellowship co-funded by theNational Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation.