Essays about: "English-speaking migrants in Sweden"

Found 2 essays containing the words English-speaking migrants in Sweden.

1. 1. Transnational Parenting and Cultural Capital : A qualitative study on cultural capital and parenting strategies of English-speaking migrants in Sweden.

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Krystal Harris; [2019]
   Keywords : Transnational parenting; children’s habitus inculcation; children’s cultural capital acquisition; English-speaking migrants in Sweden; transnational capital; linguistic capital.;

   Abstract : This study explores how English-speaking migrant parents in Sweden value transnational and linguistic cultural capital, and how they draw upon their own cultural resources in order to help their children acquire these forms of capital and inculcate a habitus. Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, social capital and habitus are used in a qualitative study in order to investigate how parents cultural capital was valued in the new cultural context, how they acquired new, more relevant capital for themselves, and how this shaped the aims, expectations and strategies they had to help their children acquire valued forms of capital. READ MORE

3. 2. Negotiating Identity : A sociolinguistic analysis of adult English speaking immigrants in Sweden

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Mojca Visnjar; [2017]
   Keywords : Identity negotiation; linguistic repertoire; Spracherleben; chronotope; language ideology.;

   Abstract : Due to increased transnational migration and globalisation, English has come to have a high status in Sweden, and is used in daily communication. The purpose of this research is to investigate how immigrants with English as their first language, negotiate their identity in Sweden, how they construct the need to (not) speak Swedish, and, finally, how their linguistic trajectories inform us about their linguistic ideologies and reported practices. READ MORE