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Super-diversity and its implications
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The super-diversity in Britain this article is defined by a dynamic interplay of variables among an increased number of new, small and scattered, multiple-origin, transnationally connected, socio-economically...Abstract:
Diversity in Britain is not what it used to be. Some thirty years of government policies, social service practices and public perceptions have been framed by a particular understanding of immigration and multicultural diversity. That is, Britain's immigrant and ethnic minority population has conventionally been characterized by large, well-organized African-Caribbean and South Asian communities of citizens originally from Commonwealth countries or formerly colonial territories. Policy frameworks and public understanding – and, indeed, many areas of social science – have not caught up with recently emergent demographic and social patterns. Britain can now be characterized by ‘super-diversity,’ a notion intended to underline a level and kind of complexity surpassing anything the country has previously experienced. Such a condition is distinguished by a dynamic interplay of variables among an increased number of new, small and scattered, multiple-origin, transnationally connected, socio-economically...read more
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Language and superdiversity
TL;DR: Arnaut et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss super-diversity in the context of a translingual ontology and discuss the role of sociolinguistic shibboleths at the institutional gate.
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A Transdisciplinary Framework for SLA in a Multilingual World
Dwight Atkinson,Heidi Byrnes,M. Doran,Patricia A. Duff,Nick C. Ellis,J. K. Hall,Karen E. Johnson,James P. Lantolf,Diane Larsen-Freeman,E. Negueruela,Bonny Norton,Lourdes Ortega,John H. Schumann,Merrill Swain,Elaine Tarone +14 more
TL;DR: The field of second language acquisition (SLA) seeks to understand the processes by which school-aged children, adolescents, and adults learn and use, at any point in life, an additional language, including second, foreign, as discussed by the authors.
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Migrating Cultural Capital: Bourdieu in Migration Studies:
TL;DR: The authors argue that migration results in new ways of producing and re-producing (mobilizing, enacting, validating) cultural capital that builds on, rather than simply mirrors, power relations of either country of origin or the country of migration.
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Towards a Comparative Theory of Locality in Migration Studies: Migrant Incorporation and City Scale
Nina Glick Schiller,Ayse Caglar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative scalar approach to migrant settlement and transnational connection is proposed, where migrants are viewed as urban scale-makers with roles that vary in relationship to the different positioning of cities within global fields of power.
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Teaching Foreign Languages in an Era of Globalization: Introduction
TL;DR: The authors explored the conditions under which foreign languages (FLs) are taught, learned, and used and explored how we are to conceive of a more reflective, interpretive, historically grounded, and politically engaged pedagogy than was called for by communicative language teaching of the eighties.
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Crossing: Language and Ethnicity among Adolescents
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Crossing : Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of sociolinguistic processes in urban youth culture is presented, focusing on the use of Panjabi by adolescents of African-Caribbean and Anglo descent.