Language and Literacy in Refugee Families
This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis’
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language and globalization series editors: sue wright and helen kelly-holmes
Language and Literacy in Refugee Families
Language and Globalization Series Editors Sue Wright University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, United Kingdom Helen Kelly-Holmes University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland
In the context of current political and social developments, where the national group is not so clearly defined and delineated, the state language not so clearly dominant in every domain, and cross-border flows and transfers affects more than a small elite, new patterns of language use will develop. This series aims to provide a framework for reporting on and analysing the lingustic outcomes of globalization and localization. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14830
Chatwara Suwannamai Duran
Language and Literacy in Refugee Families
Chatwara Suwannamai Duran University of Houston Houston, Texas, USA
Language and Globalization ISBN 978-1-137-58754-1 ISBN 978-1-137-58756-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58756-5
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This book is dedicated to my grandmother, Ngo Suwannamai, whose loving life, mastery of two languages, and immeasurable accumulated literacies, has been my inspiration.
Preface
In the summer of 2003, I left Thailand to pursue a Master’s degree in San Antonio, Texas. People often asked why San Antonio? My answer was that one of
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