[Edling] Book - Language and Literacy in Refugee Families

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

Title: Language and Literacy in Refugee Families
Author: Chatwara Suwannamai Duran
ISBN: 978-1-137-58756-5
URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-58756-5

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.
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