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Language Learning and the Politics of Belonging: Sudanese Women Refugees Becoming and Being “American”
Author(s) -
Warriner Doris S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2007.38.4.343
Subject(s) - refugee , immigration , politics , ideology , sociology , gender studies , social science , political science , law
In this article, I explore the complicated relationship between ideologies of language and language learning, discourses of immigration and belonging, and the actual lived experiences of individual language learners. The analysis demonstrates how questions of educational access, economic stability, and social membership are all influenced by a range of social, political, and historical factors, particularly for recently arrived immigrants and refugees from war‐torn African contexts.