Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies : Exploring Chain Migration From Pakistan to the UK

This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the two countries. Individuals' access to the dominant literacies of migration are contrasted with the vernacular practices which migrants take up at home as part of their digital literacies. The study explores the blurring of boundaries between home and school as well as the blurring of boundaries between language varieties. Tracing access to literacy in this way also shines a light on the literacy mediators migrants turn to for help with English language learning and when trying to access the bureaucratic literacies of migration. The study ends by exploring how migrants use all of their language resources, not just English, to fit into their new homes once they have arrived in the UK. Tony Capstick is Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK where he teaches on the MA and BA programmes including the module Literacy: Social, Educational and Cognitive Perspectives. Prior to this he was the BA Linguistics and Language Programme Director at Birkbeck, University of London. As a teacher educator, Tony has worked in Pakistan, Indonesia and Cambodia. He has also carried out work exploring the language in education needs of Syrian refugees in the Middle East "Dedication"--"Preface"--"Contents" -- "List of Figures " -- "1: Introduction" -- " Preamble" -- " Pakistan, the UK and Migration" -- " Why Pakistan and Why Literacy?" -- "References" -- "2: Theoretical Orientations" -- " Power and Practices" -- " The Roots of New Literacy Studies" -- " Literacy Practices" -- " Dominant and Vernacular Literacies" -- " Multilingual Literacies" -- " The Roots of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)" -- " The Discourse Historical Approach to CDA" -- " Discourse and Text" -- " Context" -- " Identity and Literacy" -- " Literacy Studies Within Linguistic Ethnography" -- " A New Research Agenda for Studying Linguistic Diversity" -- " Heteroglossia" -- " Heteroglossia and Vernacular Literacy" -- " The Discourse Historical Approach in CDA and Ethnography" -- " Similarities Between the Discourse-Ethnographic Approach and Literacy Studies" -- " Founding Research on Fieldwork and Ethnography" -- " Studying Different Genres and Multiple Institutional Spaces" -- " Diversified Use of Theory and Methodology" -- " Differences Between the DHA and Literacy Studies" -- " A Problem-Oriented Approach" -- " Retaining a Multi-level Definition of Context" -- "References" -- "3: Methodological Approaches" -- " My Positioning" -- " Ethnography" -- " Data Collection: Field Sites and Duration of Field Work" -- " Phase 1: Manchester (UK) and Punjab (Pakistan) 2009" -- " Phase 2: Islamabad and Mirpur (Pakistan) 2010â#x80;#x93;2011" -- " Phase 3: Mirpur (Pakistan) Juneâ#x80;#x93;August 2011" -- " Phase 4: Hillington (UK) September 2011â#x80;#x93;March 2012" -- " Interviewing and Research Ethics" -- " Reflexivity" -- " Methods for Identifying Discourse Topics and Selecting Data" -- "References" -- "4: Sociopolitical Level of Context" -- " Displacement and Migration in Azad Kashmir" -- " Migration from Pakistan to the UK." Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-7 Theoretical Orientations....Pages 9-49 Methodological Approaches....Pages 51-79 Sociopolitical Level of Context....Pages 81-104 Access, Availability and Sponsors of Literacy in Mirpur....Pages 105-139 Literacy Mediation and Cultural Brokerage in the Family’s Migration Literacies....Pages 141-172 Digital Literacies....Pages 173-207 The Discursive Construction of Online Vernacular Writing....Pages 209-228 Conclusions....Pages 229-239 Back Matter....Pages 241-255