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Language and Muslim immigrant childhoods : the politics of belonging

García-Sáchez, Inmaculada Ma

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\"This revealing analysis of everyday language use among Moroccan immigrant children in Spain explores their cultural and linguistic life-worlds as they develop a hybrid, yet coherent, sense of identity in their multilingual communities. The author shows how they adapt to the local ambivalence toward Muslim culture and increased surveillance by Spanish authorities. Offers ground-breaking research from linguistic anthropology charting the politics of childhood in Muslim immigrant communities in Spain Illuminates the contemporary debates concerning assimilation and alienation in Europe's immigrant Muslim and North African populations Provides an integrated blend of theory and empirical ethnographic data Enriches recent research on immigrant children with analyses of their sense of belonging, communicative practices, and emerging processes of identification\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
• Subject: Immigrant children Spain Social conditions 21st century. / Muslim children Spain Social conditions 21st century. / Moroccans Spain Social conditions 21st century. / Anthropological linguistics Spain. / Assimilation (Sociology) Spain.
• ISBN: 9780470673331, 0470673338

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JV8258.G38 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE