Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey

Name: Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey
Author: Rottmann, Susan Beth, Nimer, M.

İsim	Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey
Yazar	Rottmann, Susan Beth, Nimer, M.
Basım Tarihi:	2020-07-13
Basım Yeri	- Walter de Gruyter
Konu	Gender, Language, Refugee, Socialization, Power, Intersectionality, Symbolic capital
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	0167-8507
Kayıt Numarası	ac727ff6-b674-46ce-8946-c668f8c5d021
Lokasyon	Humanities and Social Sciences
Tarih	2020-07-13
Örnek Metin	This paper sheds light on Syrian refugee women’s negotiation strategies in language learning classrooms and in their broader social contexts from an intersectional perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups complemented by participatory observation in language classes, we use a post-structuralist approach to examine gendered language socialization. Our research combines an intersectional framework and a Bourdieusian perspective on symbolic capital to show how women perform gender and negotiate their roles in classrooms, within families and vis-à-vis the host society. The findings demonstrate that being a woman and a migrant presents particular challenges in learning language. At the same time, learning language allows for the re-negotiation of gender relations and power dynamics. We find that gender structures women’s access to linguistic resources and interactional opportunities as they perform language under social pressure to conform to prescribed roles as mothers, wives and virtuous, and shy women. Yet, these roles are not static: gender roles are also reconstituted in the process of language learning and gaining symbolic capital.
Editör	Piller, I.
DOI	10.1515/multi-2020-0035

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Language learning through an intersectional lens: Gender, migrant status, and gain in symbolic capital for Syrian refugee women in Turkey

Yazar Rottmann, Susan Beth, Nimer, M.

Basım Tarihi 2020-07-13

Basım Yeri - Walter de Gruyter

Konu Gender, Language, Refugee, Socialization, Power, Intersectionality, Symbolic capital

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 0167-8507

Kayıt Numarası ac727ff6-b674-46ce-8946-c668f8c5d021

Lokasyon Humanities and Social Sciences

Tarih 2020-07-13

Örnek Metin This paper sheds light on Syrian refugee women’s negotiation strategies in language learning classrooms and in their broader social contexts from an intersectional perspective. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups complemented by participatory observation in language classes, we use a post-structuralist approach to examine gendered language socialization. Our research combines an intersectional framework and a Bourdieusian perspective on symbolic capital to show how women perform gender and negotiate their roles in classrooms, within families and vis-à-vis the host society. The findings demonstrate that being a woman and a migrant presents particular challenges in learning language. At the same time, learning language allows for the re-negotiation of gender relations and power dynamics. We find that gender structures women’s access to linguistic resources and interactional opportunities as they perform language under social pressure to conform to prescribed roles as mothers, wives and virtuous, and shy women. Yet, these roles are not static: gender roles are also reconstituted in the process of language learning and gaining symbolic capital.

Editör Piller, I.

DOI 10.1515/multi-2020-0035