Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods

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This revealing analysis of everyday language use among Moroccanimmigrant children in Spain explores their cultural and linguisticlife-worlds as they develop a hybrid, yet coherent, sense ofidentity in their multilingual communities. The author shows howthey adapt to the local ambivalence toward Muslim culture andincreased surveillance by Spanish authorities. * Offers ground-breaking research from linguistic anthropologycharting the politics of childhood in Muslim immigrant communitiesin Spain * Illuminates the contemporary debates concerning assimilationand alienation in Europe's immigrant Muslim and North Africanpopulations * Provides an integrated blend of theory and empiricalethnographic data * Enriches recent research on immigrant children with analyses oftheir sense of belonging, communicative practices, andemerging processes of identification

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Inmaculada Mª García-Sánchez

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African & Middle Eastern Anthropology Anthropologie Anthropologie / Afrika, Naher Osten Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology Linguistics Linguistische Anthropologie Sociolinguistics Soziolinguistik Sprachwissenschaften

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"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." (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) "Richly ethnographic, Garcia-Sanchez offers us a penetratingview of the politics of belonging shaped through the everydayinteractions of Moroccan adolescents living in Spain; a must-readfor anyone concerned with social inequality anddiscrimination." Barbra Meek, University of Michigan "Theoretically sophisticated and ethnographicallygrounded, this beautiful book offers new insights into the politicsof belonging. Garcia-Sanchez takes on critical issues of ourtimes--immigration, racism, multilingualism,multiculturalism--by listening to the everyday voices ofMoroccan children in Spain. Her creative perspective providesstartling conclusions with important political implications." Ayala Fader, Fordham University
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