Literacy and Agency: The Case of Young Adults Who Came to Sweden as Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors

Autor/in	Wedin, Åsa
Titel	Literacy and Agency: The Case of Young Adults Who Came to Sweden as Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Minors
Quelle	In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 64 (2020) 4, S.522-534 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wedin, Åsa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-3831
DOI	10.1080/00313831.2019.1595710
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Young Adults; Literacy; Written Language; Children; Second Language Learning; Swedish; Males; Socialization; Early Experience; Goal Orientation; Immigrants; Refugees; Empowerment; Sweden; Afghanistan; Somalia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Geschriebene Sprache; Child; Kind; Kinder; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schwedisch; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Frühbeginn; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Flüchtling; Schweden
Abstract	In this article, relations between agency and literacy are analysed focussing on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children's literacies. A dialogic perspective on agency is used, with agency defined as dynamic, and with attention paid to the parameters time, culture, semiotic resources, and physical space and position. The material used for the analysis are interviews with five young adults. Interviews revealed the conflicting positions of the young persons in focus here, as agents acting to position themselves while simultaneously being in a vulnerable position. The social uses of written language resources outside school in this case turned out to be especially important for interaction with peers, relatives and acquaintances. The analysis also showed the importance of support for the development of multilingual literacies, and it identified restrictions at the social level that may be the result of monolingual literacy for the individual. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01