21.4169, Qs: United States: Indigenous Language among Immigrant Communities

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Subject: 21.4169, Qs: United States: Indigenous Language among Immigrant Communities

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Date: 14-Oct-2010
From: Ricard Vinas-de-Puig [vinasdepuigr at ecu.edu]
Subject: United States: Indigenous Language among Immigrant Communities
 

	
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:39:07
From: Ricard Vinas-de-Puig [vinasdepuigr at ecu.edu]
Subject: United States: Indigenous Language among Immigrant Communities

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I am currently working on the documentation and promotion of Latin 
American indigenous languages among the Hispanic immigrant 
population in Eastern North Carolina and I would like to get in touch 
with linguists and language activists who have worked or are currently 
working on similar issues in other regions in the United States. The 
idea is to develop synergies between faculty, language and social 
activists, and community members, and to share information, 
resources, and practices.

I have had difficulty finding resources, although there are some articles 
and other materials available that I have been able to consult:

Burke, Garance. 2002. 'Yucatecos and Chiapanecos in San Francisco: 
Indigenous Immigrants Form Communities and enter a declining labor 
market'. Paper presented at Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the US: 
Building Bridges between Researchers and Community Leaders. Santa 
Cruz, CA. October 11th-12th.

Fox, Jonathan. 2004. 'Reframing Mexican Migration as a Multi-Ethnic 
Process'. Ms. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.

Hornberger, Nancy H. 1998. 'Language policy, language education, 
language rights: Indigenous, immigrant, and international perspectives'. 
Language in Society, 27, 439-458.

Menjivar, Cecilia. 2002. 'Living in two worlds? Guatemalan-origin 
children in the United States and emerging transnationalism'. Journal of 
Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28, 3, 531-552.

Other resource recommendations would be appreciated and I am 
interested in anything related to the documentation and promotion of 
these languages. I am also interested in other phenomena, from the 
type of research approach to more linguistic theory-related issues. 

Beside looking for resources, I mostly want to establish contact with 
people currently working on documentation and promotion projects in 
the United States. 

Thanks in advance for all the information and insights.

Best,
Ricard 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics




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