The gendered migrant experience: a study of family language policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali community, Bristol

Selleck, Charlotte

doi:10.1080/14664208.2022.2047512

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“…Furthermore, female participation can be explained by the composition of the mixed-marriage families, with the local father and an immigrant Russian-speaking mother. The current study represents the mother's perspectives on the family language policy implementation, which has been proven to be valuable in numerous previous studies (e.g., Schwartz 2010;Said 2021;Selleck 2023). The participants' ages ranged between 28 and 54.…”

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Family Language Policies of Multilingual Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Israel, and Sweden

Zabrodskaja,

Meir,

Karpava

et al. 2023

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This study explored the language and literacy practices of multilingual families in Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Israel, and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on the different roles of family members in language transmission in order to understand whether these practices might have been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to answer two key research questions: RQ1, whether and how the pandemic conditions affected the heritage language, societal language acquisition, and heritage language literacy learning environments in the five countries examined (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Israel, and Sweden); and RQ2, what is the nature of child and parental agency in facilitation of the possible changes in the corresponding five countries? Fifty semi-structured interviews (ten in each country) were conducted. The data highlighted the factors that triggered changes in family language policy during the pandemic and the role of the child’s agency, parents, extended family, and social network during this period. Based on our findings, we argue that the pandemic conditions gave the children new opportunities for agency when it comes to language and literacy choice and communication with extended family members. This even facilitated new sources of input and suggested the active role of a child as an agent in shaping family language policy in the family.

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Family Language Policies of Multilingual Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Israel, and Sweden

Zabrodskaja,

Meir,

Karpava

et al. 2023

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“…it all starts when they start school (.) they go from being Somali children in the family to Bristol children’ (Selleck, 2022: 8). This observation immediately links to belonging , as discussed in the following section.…”

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Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway

Purkarthofer

2022

European Educational Research Journal

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Connections between linguistic heterogeneity, educational choices and (family) biographies are complex and ever shifting. With this paper, my aim is to explore the question how social spaces are constructed by multilingual families in migration societies and how they situate social spaces ‘in between’, thereby challenging both binary and national logics and creating third spaces. Especially in view of national educational institutions, family decisions on language transmission and use are reflected upon and at times re-evaluated. Analysis of family interviews with German migrants in Norway shows how both continuity and change are relevant for the parents as they try to produce an uninterrupted family biography but at the same time need to be open to adaptations to new situations. Expectations, language ideologies and perspectives that transcend one’s own family spaces gain relevance while (national) institutions may call for changes in language regimes and practices.

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‘I walk in language circles’: transnational-translocal entanglements of a refugee-background Somali-Bantu’s multilingual identity

Chao

2022

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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The gendered migrant experience: a study of family language policy (FLP) amongst mothers and daughters in the Somali community, Bristol

Cited by 11 publications

References 89 publications

Family Language Policies of Multilingual Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Israel, and Sweden

Family Language Policies of Multilingual Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Israel, and Sweden

Transnational families’ social spaces ‘in between’: Expectations, decision-making and belonging in light of educational choices in Norway

‘I walk in language circles’: transnational-translocal entanglements of a refugee-background Somali-Bantu’s multilingual identity

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