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Language and Literacy in Refugee Families
About this book
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 Ā 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 & Teaching Methods for Reading. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Symbols Used in Transcription
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, andĀ Literacy
- 2: āBut, WeĀ Are Karenni. WeĀ Are Not Burmese.ā Historical Contexts andĀ Lived Experiences ofĀ Karenni Refugees fromĀ Burma
- 3: The Three Families
- 4: Life, Liberty, andĀ (the Pursuit of) English
- 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, andĀ Transnational Literacy
- 6: Digital Literacy inĀ theĀ Karenni Families
- 7: Revisiting Transnationalism andĀ Key Resources
- 8: Conclusion andĀ Implications
- References
- Index