Being and Becoming "A New Immigrant" in Canada: How Language Matters, or Not

Autor/in	Han, Huamei
Titel	Being and Becoming "A New Immigrant" in Canada: How Language Matters, or Not
Quelle	In: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 11 (2012) 2, S.136-149 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-8458
DOI	10.1080/15348458.2012.667310
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Self Concept; Social Theories; Land Settlement; Asians; Vignettes; Socioeconomic Status; Language Role; Second Language Learning; Social Differences; Skilled Workers; English (Second Language); Canada (Toronto) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Selbstkonzept; Gesellschaftstheorie; Siedlungsraum; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sozialer Unterschied; Facharbeiter; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache
Abstract	Based on a four-year ethnography and informed by poststructuralist theories of identity and language, this article examines how, through lived settlement experiences in Canada, a young man from Mainland China gradually became an immigrant in the folk sense of the term. Though he was considered a success in terms of the diaspora community, he was disempowered in the host society. Highlighting one vignette, I illustrate how he came to understand that language, in the form of various texts and everyday interactions, constitutes an important terrain upon which socioeconomic inequality and immigrant identity are negotiated, resisted but reproduced. (Contains 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10