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TY - JOUR
T1 - Normalization of English and Identity Construction of Refugee Background Youth from Burma/Myanmar in US Schools
AU - Tun, K.W.
PY - 2023/3/31
Y1 - 2023/3/31
N2 - This paper is based on the ethnographic multiple case study of four refugee background youths from Burma at four different schools in a midwestern urban school district in the US. My research finds that the normalization of English constructed the focal youths' language-related identities. I also argue that through this normalization, language difference between school and home became a difference that marginalized the focal youth in their class and racialized their subjectivity.
AB - This paper is based on the ethnographic multiple case study of four refugee background youths from Burma at four different schools in a midwestern urban school district in the US. My research finds that the normalization of English constructed the focal youths' language-related identities. I also argue that through this normalization, language difference between school and home became a difference that marginalized the focal youth in their class and racialized their subjectivity.
KW - Education policy
KW - English learner
KW - language and identity
KW - refugee education
U2 - 10.1111/aeq.12426
DO - 10.1111/aeq.12426
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
SP - 59
EP - 74
JO - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
JF - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
SN - 0161-7761
IS - 1
ER -