‘Language Is Your Dignity’: Migration, Linguistic Capital, and the Experience of Re/De-Valuation
Using critical hermeneutic phenomenology, this study considers the lived realities of seven adult migrants with diverse migratory trajectories who came to London in order to set up a new life. Drawing on Bourdieu, it explicates their symbolic struggles for value fought out at the linguistic level an...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Languages |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/3/64 |