Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies Exploring Chain M
This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migrati
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Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies
Tony Capstick
Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK
Tony Capstick University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-56977-6 ISBN 978-1-137-56978-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56978-3
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For my mother and father—Theresa and Vincent Capstick
Preface
This volume draws on a four-year ethnographic study of a Mirpuri family’s migrations, as seen through the lens of New Literacy Studies. This means understanding literacy as a social practice, applied in different contexts to meet different purposes, in this case for the purposes of migration. This focus meant exploring many different activities involving reading and writing in the everyday lives of migrants and relating these to those individuals’ migrations embedded in the histories of specific Pakistani communities, their literacies and their migration trajectories, as well as the development of immigration policies in the UK. Taking an ethnographic perspective implied taking part in many of these activities in addition to observing them and asking about them in interviews. This generated a range of data from many different community locations in Mirpur and Hillington.1 These data were analysed by combining New Literacy Studies with Sociolinguistics and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). What this meant was that the insider perspective that is so central to N
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