The Multilingual Adolescent Experience, livre ebook

Explores integration, socialisation and belonging among Polish immigrant adolescents in Ireland

This book contributes to our understanding of how older learners negotiate family internal and family external socialisation processes and thereby how parents’ ideologies and practices, peer socialisation, and language status or societal demands come together in adolescents’ lives. It integrates the sociohistorical context and adolescents’ attitudes with the parents’ role. Through the use of ‘small stories’ and ethnographic observation this book explores the social and cultural worlds of Polish immigrant adolescents in Ireland, the ways they seek membership and belonging in their communities of practice, and the ways in which they develop sociohistorical understandings across the languages and cultures they are part of. It sheds light on schooling and family communities and the role they play in the socialization processes of immigrant children.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Children, Migration and Socialisation

Chapter 2. Participants: Children, their Families and Socialization Contexts    

Chapter 3. Power of Belonging

Chapter 4. Agency and Sociocultural Mediation

Chapter 5. Language Ideologies and Parents

Chapter 6. Conclusion and Implications  

Index