Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship : : Rights, Access, Pedagogies / / ed. by Vaidehi Ramanathan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Coelho, Fabio Oliveira,; Duran, Chatwara Suwannamai,; Feuerherm, Emily,; Henze, Rosemary,; King, Kendall A.,; Loring, Ariel,; Makoni, Busi,; Matsuda, Aya,; McCarty, Teresa L.,; Menard-Warwick, Julia,; Menken, Kate,; Punti, Gemma,; Ramanathan, Vaidehi,; Sagoo, Gopinder Kaur,; Widin, Jacqueline,; Yasukawa, Keiko,
• HerausgeberIn: Ramanathan, Vaidehi,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded, whilst offering a powerful demonstration of the potential for change offered by individual agency, resistance and struggle. In addressing questions such as 'under what local conditions does "dis-citizenship" happen?'; 'what role do language policies and pedagogic practices play?' and 'what kinds of margins and borders keep humans from fully participating'? The chapters in this volume shift the debate away from visas and passports to more uncertain and contested spaces of interpretation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship: Rights, Access, Pedagogies -- Part 1: Citizenship: Reproducing, Challenging, Transforming Discourses and Ideologies -- 2. Language, Gender and Citizenship: Re-framing Citizenship from a Gender Equality Perspective -- 3. Problematizing the Construction of US Americans as Monolingual English Speakers -- 4. Keywords in Refugee Accounts: Implications for Language Policies -- 5. ‘The World Doesn’t End at the Corner of their Street’: Language Ideologies of Chilean English Teachers -- 6. A Perfect Storm for Undocumented Latino Youth?: Multi-level Marketing, Discourses of Advancement and Language Policy -- 7. Education Policy, Citizenship and Linguistic Sovereignty in Native America -- Part 2: Education and Citizenship: Creating (and Constraining) Spaces for Language, Learning and Belonging -- 8. Citizenship as Social, Spiritual and Multilingual Practice: Fostering Visions and Practices in the Nishkam Nursery Project -- 9. Re-imagining Citizenship: Views from the Classroom -- 10. Classroom Meanings and Enactments of US Citizenship: An Ethnographic Study -- 11. (Dis)Citizenship or Opportunity? The Importance of Language Education Policy for Access and Full Participation of Emergent Bilinguals in the United States -- 12. English Learning without English Teachers? The Rights and Access of Rural Secondary Students in Nicaragua -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Contributors -- Index