Conference proceeding
Immigration Geographies, Multilingual Immigrants, and the Transmission of Minority Languages: Evidence from the Igbo Brain Drain
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
01 Jan 2005
Abstract
Reynolds outlines the linguistic repertoire of one migration network to the US and the six sites in which the repertoire is partially reproduced. An outline of the repertoire and the contexts or sites under which that repertoire is reproduced represent a first step toward trying to take account of the new and changing sociogeographical settlement patterns of multilingual immigrants, such as many African immigrants, to analyze the process of transmission of minority languages to future generations. The group of Nigerian Igbo-speaking immigrants described here and with whom she conducted ethnography of communication fieldwork for six years in the late 1990s are members of the "New Ethnics."
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- Title
- Immigration Geographies, Multilingual Immigrants, and the Transmission of Minority Languages: Evidence from the Igbo Brain Drain
- Creators
- Rachel Reynolds
- Publication Details
- Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Identifiers
- 991019184823604721