Language Diaspora Home

<p>This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second- third- and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home.</p><p>The volume features an interdisciplinary approach drawing on work from narrative storytelling literary studies and linguistic anthropology as well as interviews with multiple generations of immigrant families to reflect on the ways these families foster a sense of home and maintain connections to their homelands through language. Robinson showcases the voices of a diverse range of families to examine the choices women in immigrant families make between the use of family languages dominant community languages or a mix of the two. The volume enhances our understanding of the ways in which immigrants navigate the linguistic landscapes of home and community amid migration and diaspora.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology sociolinguistics language and gender and language and migration.</p>