Identity, Language and Belonging on Jersey

Beswick, Jaine

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“…Consequently, despite conceptualising the 'French community' as a South Kensington elite to which they do not belong, they have, as discussed in this subsection, brought to bear a shared geographically, linguistically and symbolically defined identity, in other words, a London-French 'community'. This resonates with the operationalisation and effects of translanguaging among other European migrant communities, such as the Italians in London (Cacciatore and Pepe 2019) and Toronto (Di Salvo 2017), the Spanish and Portuguese in Bournemouth (Beswick and Pozo-Gutiérrez 2010) and Jersey (Beswick 2020) and the Portuguese in Paris (Koven 2013), for whom, rather than exclusively emplacing or displacing them in/from the pre-or postmigration place, their hybrid languaging situates them in a 'polycentric' transnational space (Blommaert et al 2005, p. 200) and 'at some point along a continuum on which their patterns of accommodation into the receptor society vary' (Beswick and Pozo-Gutiérrez 2010, p. 59).…”

Section: Embedded Symbolic Capital: Translanguaging Across the Transnational Spacementioning

confidence: 89%

“…It is significant, therefore, that both Robert and Brice spontaneously refer to being 'at ease' in the English language, since this sense of ease is typically ascribed to the primary habitus, the premigration space and the first language, where everything 'takes place as second nature' (Bourdieu [1972(Bourdieu [ ] 2000 due to the 'fish in water' (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992, p. 103) effect of the originary habitat 48 . That both participants now associate being 'at ease' within the postmigration translanguaging space consequently suggests that longterm immersion therein has contributed to a productive redefinition of their internalised linguistic habitus and an externally generated recalibration of 'home' (Beswick 2020). This is pertinent, for as Bourdieu [1982] (Bourdieu [1982] 2001, p. 287), Elliott (2008 and Baratta (2018) argue, 'identity is a two-way street' (Baratta 2018, p. 9), not only Original: 'Quand je parle le français et l'anglais, je ne suis pas la même personne, absolument pas ... Je suis tout de suite un peu plus sophistiquée avec le français, un peu plus, presque snob, et puis ma voix, mon registre est plus élevé qu'avec l'anglais'.…”

Section: Beyond a 'Cleft' Or 'Hybrid' Habitus? Testing The Limits Of The Translanguaging Third Spacementioning

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“…On the one hand, in the premigration social space, their 'hybrid speech is not [perceived as] the inevitable consequence of life abroad, but reveals disloyalty to the homeland' (Koven 2013, p. 328). On the other, they are interconnected in the postmigration space through an implicit bond which defies linguistic and national divides (Sheringham 2010;Beswick 2020). Consequently, despite conceptualising the 'French community' as a South Kensington elite to which they do not belong, they have, as discussed in this subsection, brought to bear a shared geographically, linguistically and symbolically defined identity, in other words, a London-French 'community'.…”

Section: Embedded Symbolic Capital: Translanguaging Across the Transnational Spacementioning

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Navigating the London-French Transnational Space: The Losses and Gains of Language as Embodied and Embedded Symbolic Capital

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2021

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In this article, an interdisciplinary lens is applied to French migrants’ reflections on their everyday language practices, investigating how embodied and embedded language, such as accent and London-French translanguaging, serve as both in-group and out-group symbolic markers in different transnational spaces. Key sociological concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu are deployed, including field, habitus, hysteresis and symbolic capital, to assess the varying symbolic conversion rates of the migrants’ languaging practices across transnational spaces. A mixed-methodological and analytical approach is taken, combining narratives from ethnographic interviews and autobiography. Based on the data gathered, the article posits that the French accent is an embodied symbolic marker, experienced as an internalised dialectic: a barrier to inclusion/belonging in London and an escape from the symbolic weight of the originary accent in France. Subsequently, it argues that the migrants’ translanguaging functions as a spontaneous insider vernacular conducive to community identity construction in the postmigration space, but (mis)interpreted as an exclusionary articulation of symbolic distinction in the premigration context. Finally, the article asks whether participants’ linguistic repertoires, self-identifications and spatialities go beyond the notion of the ‘cleft habitus’, or even hybridity, to a post-structural, translanguaging third space that transcends borders.

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Section: Embedded Symbolic Capital: Translanguaging Across the Transnational Spacementioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Beyond a 'Cleft' Or 'Hybrid' Habitus? Testing The Limits Of The Translanguaging Third Spacementioning

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Navigating the London-French Transnational Space: The Losses and Gains of Language as Embodied and Embedded Symbolic Capital

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“…This archipelago was disputed between the French and the English for centuries and was acquired by the latter in 1259 (Rothwell 1975). It has been a British crown dependency ever since (Beswick 2020). Population sizes were higher on islands closer to England perhaps because they were less exposed to potential invasions from continental Europe (Beswick 2020).…”

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“…It has been a British crown dependency ever since (Beswick 2020). Population sizes were higher on islands closer to England perhaps because they were less exposed to potential invasions from continental Europe (Beswick 2020).…”

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Island biogeography of plants and humans

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<p>Islands have always attracted considerable research effort due to their unique geography and biota. However, the biogeography of islands still presents substantial challenges. For instance, islands often sustain high rates of plant invasions. The distributional patterning of exotic species on islands though is still poorly understood. Additionally, while species vary strongly in their life histories, plant traits have been rarely integrated with the investigation of the island biogeography of plant species. Islands are also commonly struck by storms and strong winds of oceanic origin, yet how ocean-borne disturbances affect island plant communities is unclear. Finally, in the last 50 years, researchers investigated the insular distribution of virtually every known taxon, but very little is known about variation in human population sizes on islands. The goal of this thesis is to investigate these understudied aspects within the theory of island biogeography framework in vascular plant species and humans. To better understand plant invasions on islands, I compared the relationships between native and exotic species richness and island characteristics on 264 islands offshore Northern New Zealand. Native and exotic species displayed broadly similar biogeographical patterns; however, exotic species exhibited subtle, yet distinctive, invasion patterns. Trends in species richness were also scale-dependent, and increasingly for exotic species. Second, I integrated plant life-history traits within the theory of island biogeography framework to investigate how exotic species with different traits relate to island characteristics on 264 islands offshore Northern New Zealand. Exotic species with traits associated with high invasion rates (i.e. high island occupancy rates) were more similar to native species both in occupancy and in relationships with island characteristics. Moreover, they were less commonly associated with human-related variables. 6 Third, I assessed how distributional patterns of native and exotic plant species varied depending on different levels of ocean-borne disturbances on 97 small New Zealand islands. Overall results show that both native richness and composition varied with different levels of disturbance. In striking contrast, distributional patterns of exotic species remained unchanged. Differences between natives and exotics might reflect a lack of coastal specialists in the exotic species pool. Lastly, I explored relationships between human population sizes and island characteristics on 10 archipelagos worldwide, for a total of 486 islands. Overall results showed that, just like other animals, human distributions are associated to island characteristics. However, relationships between human population sizes and island characteristics varied markedly among archipelagos, often reflecting specific social, political and historical circumstances. This thesis combines with a growing body of research on plant invasions on islands. It provides a fresh perspective on the subject by assessing previously overlooked aspects of the invasion process, such as the scale-dependency of the relationships between exotic species richness and island characteristics. Additionally, it integrated a trait-based approach within the theory of island biogeography framework. It also provided a test of how species of different biogeographic origins respond to varying levels of ocean-borne disturbances. Lastly, this work includes what is, to my knowledge, the first global test of the island biogeography of humans.</p>

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The island biogeography of human population size

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Burns

2023

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For decades, biogeographers have sought a better understanding of how organisms are distributed among islands. However, the island biogeography of humans remains largely unknown. Here, we investigate how human population size varies among 486 islands at two spatial scales. At a global scale, we tested whether population size increases with island area and declines with island elevation and nearest mainland, as is common in non-human species, or whether humans escape such biogeographic constraints. At a regional scale, we tested whether population sizes vary among islands within archipelagos according to the positioning of different cultural source pools. Results illustrate that on a global scale, human populations increased in size with island area, similar to non-human species, yet they did not decline in size with elevation and distance to nearest mainland. At a regional scale, human population size often varied among islands within archipelagos relative to the location of different cultural source pools. Despite broad-scale similarities in the geographical distribution of human and non-human species among islands, results from this study indicate that the island biogeography of humans may also be influenced by archipelago-specific social, political and historical circumstances.

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Identity, Language and Belonging on Jersey

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