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I am seeking two authors to join a panel submission for the 2026 Association of Asian Studies conference in Vancouver (March 12-15). Please see below the panel description. If interested, please email a paper title and abstract of 250 words to shannon.ward@ubc.ca
by <b>July 28</b>.</div>
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Across Borders and Belonging: Multilingual Education and Changing Mobilities in Asia</div>
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Transnational mobility has served as a catalyst for multilingual education in Asia—both education in minoritized languages as well as education in dominant global languages such as English. Despite an expansion of multilingual education in the 21st century,
however, communities across Asia are currently grappling with government policies that shift between promoting transnational connection and enforcing social, ethnic, and geographic borders. In this context, how do ideologies about borders manifest in policies
for multilingual education and on-the-ground practices in schools, homes, and communities? How do these changing policies and practices shape the forms of belonging that mobile communities build through their migration routes?</div>
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Through ethnographic case studies of a range of mobile communities, including rural-to-urban migrants, diasporic communities, and refugees, our addresses these questions by considering how multilingual education can simultaneously promote belonging and reify
borders. Papers seek to disrupt common narratives about the relationship between multilingualism and transnational connection, which often treat multilingualism as a consequence of globalization despite the rapid language endangerment that has followed from
associated forms of neoliberal expansion. By analyzing multilingual education amid changing mobilities, our panel positions Asian migrant communities at the center of possibilities for future language vitality and language revitalization at a moment when patterns
of transnational connection are rapidly shifting.</div>
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<span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Dr. Shannon Ward</b>, PhD (<a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/gender-diversity/pronouns/" target="_blank" href="https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/gender-diversity/pronouns/">she/her</a>)<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies<br>
The University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | Syilx Okanagan Nation Territory</span></p>
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ARTS 270 | 1147 Research Road | Kelowna BC | V1V 1V7 Canada</div>
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<i>Respectfully acknowledging that I live and work in the unceded and ancestral territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.</i></div>
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<u>Read my recent publications!</u></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">2024. <u><a title="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487558673" href="https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487558673">Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau</a></u>. University
of Toronto Press</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">2024. <a title="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2024.2421442" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2024.2421442">
The Construction of Linguistic Identities in Talk about Food among Tibetan Heritage Language Learners.</a><i> Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">2024. <u><a title="https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/facultyresearchandpublications/52383/items/1.0447752" href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/facultyresearchandpublications/52383/items/1.0447752">Heritage
Language Recognition: The multimodal construction of language in a Tibetan-Canadian family's literacy activities</a></u>. Accepted in
<i>Language in Society. </i></span></div>
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