Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods

This revealing analysis of everyday language use among Moroccanimmigrant children in Spain explores their cultural and linguisticlife-worlds as they develop a hybrid, yet coherent, sense ofidentity in their multilingual communities. The author shows howthey adapt to the local ambivalence toward Muslim culture andincreased surveillance by Spanish authorities. Offers ground-breaking research from linguistic anthropologycharting the politics of childhood in Muslim immigrant communitiesin Spain Illuminates the contemporary debates concerning assimilationand alienation in Europe’s immigrant Muslim and North Africanpopulations Provides an integrated blend of theory and empiricalethnographic data Enriches recent research on immigrant children with analyses oftheir sense of belonging, communicative practices, andemerging processes of identification