Negotiating Identities In Nordic Migrant Narratives

Author : Pia Lane,Bjørghild Kjelsvik,Annika Bøstein Myhr
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030891091

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Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives by Pia Lane,Bjørghild Kjelsvik,Annika Bøstein Myhr Pdf

This edited volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how identities are negotiated and a sense of belonging established in a world of increasing migration and diversity. Transcending field-specific approaches and differences in foci, the authors investigate how identity is constructed and mediated in face-to-face interactions (in real time and fictional writing), how writers use narratives to express their reorientation and their identity negotiation in a new homeland, and how material objects convey layered meaning to identity and belonging. This engagement with spoken, written and material mediation of identity resonates with recent sociolinguistic investigations on how language is connected to and intersects with embodiment, materiality and time. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of globalisation and migration studies, sociolinguistics and narrative analysis, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Haci Akman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782383079

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Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia by Haci Akman Pdf

Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between these women and their adopted countries, considering both the local and the global. The text examines the “making of the Scandinavian” and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state.

Author : Carolyn McKinney,Pinky Makoe,Virginia Zavala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000931976

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The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism by Carolyn McKinney,Pinky Makoe,Virginia Zavala Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. This fully revised edition not only updates several of the original chapters but introduces many new ones that enrich contemporary debates in the burgeoning field of multilingualism. With a decolonial perspective and including leading new and established contributors from different regions of the globe, the handbook offers a critical overview of the interdisciplinary field of multilingualism, providing a range of central themes, key debates and research sites for a global readership. Chapters address the profound epistemological and ontological challenges and shifts produced since the first edition in 2012. The handbook includes an introduction, five parts with 28 chapters and an afterword. The chapters are structured around sub-themes, such as Coloniality and Multilingualism, Concepts and Theories in Multilingualism, and Multilingualism and Education. This ground-breaking text is a crucial resource for researchers, scholars and postgraduate students interested in multilingualism from areas such as sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology and education.

Author : Unn Røyneland,Robert Blackwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000472578

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Multilingualism across the Lifespan by Unn Røyneland,Robert Blackwood Pdf

This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as multilingualism across the lifespan, bilingual acquisition, family language policy, language and ageing, language shift, language and identity, and multilingualism and language impairment. The book builds on Elizabeth Lanza’s pioneering work on multilingualism across the lifespan, bringing together cutting-edge research exploring multilingualism as an evolving phenomenon at landmarks in individuals’, families’, and communities’ lives. Taken together, the book offers a rich portrait of the different facets of multilingualism as a lived reality for individuals, families, and communities. This ground-breaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.

Author : Ana Deumert,Sinfree Makoni
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788926584

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From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics by Ana Deumert,Sinfree Makoni Pdf

This book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, focusing not only on epistemology but also on the complex relationship between epistemology and ontology. The chapters address issues ranging from author positionality to the central theorists of a southern sociolinguistics, and roam from the language classroom to the church, in ways which invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and language teaching. The book provides scholars and teachers with inspiration for how to teach linguistics in ways that challenge colonial hegemonies and that allow one to ‘do’ sociolinguistics otherwise. It also makes a powerful argument that debates about decolonization, southern theory and social justice are not just academic pursuits: what is at stake is our future and how we imagine it.

Author : Emily Greenbank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9027205566

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Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees by Emily Greenbank Pdf

Incorporating both interview and workplace data, this book examines the discursive and social challenges that former refugees encounter as they navigate successes and failures in the New Zealand labour market. Over five chapters of microlevel discourse analysis - drawing on Bamberg & Georgakopoulou's (2008) positioning, and interactional sociolinguistic literature - themes emerge of narrative, social and cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1986), linguistic agency, and wider capital-D Discourses (Gee, 1990) surrounding refugeehood. Of particular interest in this study is the inclusion of a longitudinal study of former refugees' trajectories in the labour market, and the combination of both interview and authentic workplace interactional data, providing rich insight into the multiple and ongoing challenges new arrivals face in their negotiation of employability. This book will be of interest to those engaged in research around migration (particularly those focused on forced migration), employment, language and identity, and narrative identity.

Author : Georgina Tsolidis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400772113

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Migration, Diaspora and Identity by Georgina Tsolidis Pdf

Framed in relation to diaspora this collection engages with the subject of how cultural difference is lived and how complex and shifting identities shape and respond to spatial politics of belonging. Diaspora is understood in a variety of ways, which makes this an eclectic collection of papers. Authors use various theoretical frameworks to explore diverse groups of people with a variety of experiences in a wide range of settings. They are making sense of the experiences of women and men from a range of ethnic backgrounds, negotiating identities through family, work and education. The micro dynamics of the everyday offer an evocative 'bottom up' means of understanding the tensions implicit in living multiple belongings. The common thread for the collection comes from the glimpses these authors provide into the remaking of our globalized world. The aim is to shed light on racism, dislocation and alienation on the one hand, and on the other hand, to consider how the complex power relations within the everyday mediate a sense of resistance and hope. The papers are arranged around four themes; 1. Multiple Belongings, 2. Representing a Way of Being, 3. Sexualised Identifications and 4. Marriage and Family.

Author : Anne Pitkänen-Huhta,Lars Holm
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847698421

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Literacy Practices in Transition by Anne Pitkänen-Huhta,Lars Holm Pdf

Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how the global and local meet in discourses and practices and how people need to (re)negotiate their way in the complex and messy spaces in which they move. The volume challenges current trends in the global standardization of language and literacy education. Instead, it promotes the idea of literacy as a multiple, multilingual, multimodal and constantly contestable and negotiable phenomenon, which calls for the development of language and literacy education that is sensitive to the needs and experiences of the individual actors.

Author : Laura Stark
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788763544870

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Ethnologia Europaea vol. 46:1 by Laura Stark Pdf

Special issue: Muslim Intimacies In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes such as recent waves of mass migration, the increasing transnationalism of everyday practices, global commerce in ideas and images, and the expansion of information technology into all corners of people’s lives. Some of the greatest challenges are experienced by Muslim families; the majority of the world’s Muslims live in extreme poverty, and in Europe, anti-Muslim sentiment has found a firm foothold in public attitudes and debates. This special issue explores the dilemmas facing transnational Muslim families as well as those who feel the impact of late modern transformations in societies where they have lived for generations. Five scholarly articles address family dynamics among Muslims in Finland (Anne Häkkinen), Ethiopia (Outi Fingerroos), Italy and Sweden (Pia Karlsson Minganti), Morocco (Raquel Gil Carvalheira), and Tanzania (Laura Stark); these are complemented by the insightful commentary by Garbi Schmidt. The aim of this theme issue is to develop new ways of talking about the links between Islam, family and the individual, which move away from the ethnocentrism of Western concepts and pay greater attention to the desires and goals of those studied. This volume includes two open issue contributions: Magdalena Elchinova scrutinizes identity construction among Orthodox Bulgarians based in Istanbul, and in the context of the post- Fordist “creative city” Ove Sutter analyses the playful and performative protests of activists following the declaration of the so-called Danger Zone 2014 in Hamburg, Germany.

Author : Robert Blackwood,Unn Røyneland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000472622

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Spaces of Multilingualism by Robert Blackwood,Unn Røyneland Pdf

This innovative collection explores critical issues in understanding multilingualism as a defining dimension of identity creation and negotiation in contemporary social life. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as rethinking of language policy, testing of language rights, language pedagogy, meaning-making, and activism in the linguistic landscape. The book explores multilingualism through the lenses of spaces and policies as embodied in Elizabeth Lanza’s body of work in the field, with a focus on the latest research on linguistic landscapes in diverse settings. Taken together, the book offers a window into better understanding issues around processes of change in and of languages and societies. This ground breaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

Author : Annimari Juvonen,Verena Lindemann Lino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110712094

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Negotiations of Migration by Annimari Juvonen,Verena Lindemann Lino Pdf

At a time when migration is mostly discussed in terms of “conflict” and “crisis”, it is decidedly important to acknowledge the discursive traditions, narrative patterns, and conceptual categories that continue to inform how migration is represented, analyzed and theorized in contemporary Europe. This volume focuses on the potential of artistic and critical practices to challenge hegemonic framings of migration and embrace the ambivalence inherent in migration as a conflictual, often violent, yet also liberating uprooting. By placing special emphasis on “peripheral” perspectives and subject positions, the volume provides new insights into topics such as belonging and exclusion, the “migrant crisis”, and memory. By bringing into dialogue creative practices and academic discourses, it explores how new modes of seeing and theorizing may emerge through experiences and representations of migration. Situated within the field of literary and cultural studies, it complements historical and social analyses in the emerging interdisciplinary field of migration studies.

Author : Christian Karner
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754676393

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Negotiating National Identities by Christian Karner Pdf

Negotiating National Identities presents an empirically detailed and theoretically wide-ranging analysis of the complex political and cultural struggles taking place in contemporary Europe. Taking contemporary Austria and her controversial identity politics as its central case study in a discussion of developments across a variety of national and pan-European contexts, this book demonstrates that neo-nationalism has been one among several competing reactions to the processes and challenges of globalization, whilst inclusive notions of identity and belonging are shown to have emerged from the realms of civil society and cultural production.

Author : Natalia Bloch,Kathleen M. Adams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000821444

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Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile by Natalia Bloch,Kathleen M. Adams Pdf

This book challenges the classic – and often tacit – compartmentalization of tourism, migration, and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions, yet they often intertwine, overlap, and influence one another. Tourism, migration, and exile evoke widely varying policies, diverse popular reactions, and contrasting imagery. What are the ramifications of these siloed conceptions for people on the move? To what extent do gender, class, ethnic, and racial global inequalities shape moral discourses surrounding people’s movements? This book presents 12 predominantly ethnographic case studies from around the world, and a pandemic-focused conclusion, that address these issues. In recounting and juxtaposing stories of refugees’ and migrants’ returns, marriage migrants, voluntourists, migrant retirees, migrant tourism workers and entrepreneurs, mobile investors and professionals, and refugees pursuing educational mobility, this book cultivates more nuanced insights into intersecting forms of mobility. Ultimately, this work promises to foster not only empathy but also greater resolve for forging trails toward mobility justice. This accessibly written volume will be essential to scholars and students in critical migration, tourism, and refugee studies, including anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers, and researchers in political science and cultural studies. The book will also be of interest to non-academic professionals and general readers interested in contemporary mobilities.

Author : Konstanze Jungbluth,Christiane Meierkord
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9783823363170

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Identities in Migration Contexts by Konstanze Jungbluth,Christiane Meierkord Pdf

Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : OCLC:1289518997

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Identity in Narrative by Anna De Fina Pdf