Language, Immigration and Naturalization
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Language, Immigration and Naturalization
Legal and Linguistic Issues
Edited by
Ariel Loring and Vaidehi Ramanathan
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol Buffalo Toronto
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
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Names: Loring, Ariel, editor. | Ramanathan, Vaidehi, editor.
Title: Language, Immigration and Naturalization: Legal and Linguistic issues Edited by Ariel Loring and Vaidehi Ramanathan.
Description: Bristol; Buffalo: Multilingual Matters, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015044281| ISBN 9781783095155 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781783095148 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781783095162 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Linguistic minorities--Education--Political aspects. |
Language and languages--Political aspects. | Language policy. |
Citizenship. | Nationalism.
Classification: LCC P119.315 .L35 2016 | DDC 306.44/9--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015044281
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ISBN-13: 978-1-78309-515-5 (hbk)
ISBN-13: 978-1-78309-514-8 (pbk)
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Contents
Ariel Loring and Vaidehi Ramanathan
Michelle Winn Baptiste
Emily Feuerherm and Russul Roumani
Karen E. Lillie
Paul McPherron
Olga Griswold
Jasmina Josi
Jennifer Long
Ariel Loring
Ariel Loring
Michelle Winn Baptiste teaches writing and oral communication in the College Writing Programs at the University of California at Berkeley. She specializes in working with multilingual students and appreciates the diversity of cultural identities that her students bring to the classroom. After serving in the US Peace Corps in the Eastern Caribbean, she earned her masters degree in English as a Second Language from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has taught in Hawaii, Minnesota and Oklahoma, as well as on the Navajo Nation and in Japan and St. Lucia. She is passionate about social justice, photography, language and family.
Emily Feuerherm is an assistant professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Michigan, Flint. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Davis. Her research integrates language education policy, curriculum design, TESOL pedagogies, discourse analysis and (dis)citizenship in English teaching and learning. She advocates for engaged scholarship and orients her research to community-based participatory action research methods. Her work has appeared in the CATESOL Journal , the edited volume Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship: Rights, Access, Pedagogies and she co-edited the volume Refugee Resettlement in the United States: Language, Policy, Pedagogy.
Olga Griswold is an associate professor of linguistics at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, where she has taught since 2007. She holds a doctorate in applied linguistics from UCLA. Her research interests include adult second language (L2) socialization, the analysis of interaction in L2 classrooms, including the roles of gesture and bodily movement, and the development of literacy skills of multilingual writers. She has published articles in Research on Language and Social Interaction , TESOL Quarterly and Linguistics & Education . Her current research project focuses on the academic writing and grammatical skills of Generation 1.5 college students.
Jasmina Josi , PhD is an efficacy analytics and studies manager at the Global Higher Education Line of Business at Pearson. Her research is concerned with examining the internationalization of higher education, the dynamics of educational policies in urban spaces, youth citizenship and identity, student engagement and achievement and the integration of digital resources into teaching and learning. Josi has conducted multiple research studies with youth and managed youth programs in urban US settings.
Karen E. Lillie (PhD, Applied Linguistics) is an assistant professor of TESOL at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Her specialization is in language policy and forensic linguistics. Dr Lillies research interests specifically relate to language discrimination, immigration, rights for language minorities, dropout rates and ELs, language and the justice system and (restrictive) language policies. She is associate editor of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education and is on the advisory committee for the Language Policy Research Network (LPREN). Dr Lillie was formerly the EL coordinator for the school district in which she taught 9th12th grade ELs in Arizona.
Jennifer Long is a sessional faculty member at various post-secondary institutions across southwestern Ontario. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and has held two postdoctoral fellowships at the Western Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations in London, Ontario. Her research interests include firsthand experiences of immigrant integration and settlement services in Canada and the Netherlands. Her current research interests include newcomer employability and firsthand experiences of diversity in the workplace, across Canada. In addition to her academic work, she is an intercultural competency facilitator.
Ariel Loring holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Davis. She is currently a lecturer in the Anthropology Department of California State University, Sacramento and a writing specialist at UC Davis. Her research interests encompass language policies, citizenship and immigration, language ideologies and discourse analysis. She has published work in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies , Journal of Social Science Education , the CATESOL Journal and two other edited volumes with Multilingual Matters.
Paul McPherron is an assistant professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he also coordinates the undergraduate ESL program and teaches classes on English linguistics, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, ESL and the structure of English. He is a socio/applied linguist whose research interests involve questions about English language learning in relation to identity, globalization and teaching policies, particularly in China and the United States.
