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Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods: The Politics of Belonging
Inmaculada Mª García-Sánchez
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Hardcover. Documenting the everyday lives of Moroccan immigrant children in Spain, this in-depth study considers how its subjects navigate the social and political landscapes of family, neighborhood peer groups, and the institutions of their adopted country. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JFFN; JFSL1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 189 x 23. Weight in Grams: 746.
Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods Documenting the everyday lives of Moroccan immigrant children in Spain, this in-depth study considers how its subjects navigate the social and political landscapes of family, neighborhood peer groups, and the institutions of their adopted country. García-Sánchez compels us to rethink theories of language and racialization by offering a linguistic anthropological approach that illuminates the politics of childhood in Spain’s growing communities of migrants. The author demonstrates that these Moroccan children walk a tightrope between sameness and difference, simultaneously participating in the cultural life of their immigrant community and that of a “host” society that is ... Read moredeeply ambivalent about contemporary migratory trends.
The author evaluates the contemporary state of research on immigrant children and explores the dialectical relations between young Moroccan immigrants’ everyday social interactions, and the broader cultural logic and socio-political discourses arising from integration and inclusion of the Muslim communities. Her work focuses in particular on children’s modes of communication with teachers, peers, family members, friends, doctors, and religious figures in a society where Muslim immigrants are subject to increasing state surveillance. The project underscores the central relevance of studying immigrant children’s day-to-day experience and linguistic praxis in tracing how the forces at work in transnational, diasporic settings have an impact on their sense of belonging, charting the links between the immediate contexts of their daily lives and their emerging processes of identification.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
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Hoboken, United Kingdom
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About Inmaculada Mª García-Sánchez
Inmaculada Mª García-Sánchez is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, where her research focuses on language and the immigrant experience; language and culture in educational contexts; language and discrimination; and language socialization in immigrant communities. Her work on immigrant children has been published in journals such as Language and Communication, Linguistics and Education, Pragmatics, and Multicultural Perspectives, ... Read moreand she contributed to The Handbook of Language Socialization (Wiley Blackwell, 2012). García-Sánchez has received numerous awards for her work, and in 2012 was granted a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Show Less
Reviews for Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods: The Politics of Belonging
“Overall, Garcia-Sanchez presents linguistic analysis and data in a way that balances sophistication of argument with clarity and accessibility to those without extensive linguistic training. As a result, this monograph should be appealing both to seasoned scholars and undergraduate students in linguistics and linguistic anthropology, as well as to cultural anthropologists and social scientists interested in Europe, migration, and childhood.” ... Read more(Anthropos, 1 October 2015) “...García-Sánchez’s book adds to the current literature on socialization, identity construction, and immigration by showing how these larger issues can have direct impact on how the children of immigrants perceive themselves as accepted members of their societies.” (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 May 2015) Show Less