Integration as Portrayed in Visual Narratives by Young Refugees in Germany

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Beteiligte Personen:
  • Kalaja, Paula
  • Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia
Verlag/Körperschaft:
Multilingual Matters
Erscheinungsjahr:
2019
Medientyp:
Text
Schlagworte:
  • Integration
  • Refugee
  • Linguistic
  • Research
Beschreibung:
  • This chapter explores the social integration of recent underage refugees in Hamburg, Germany (N = 12, aged 17–18 years). When about to graduate from a vocational school, the young people were asked to produce two drawings, ‘My life now’ and ‘My life in a year’s time’. The task allowed them to envision their futures and consider the role of German (and other languages) in the process. Despite portrayed difficulties related to housing and learning a new language, the young refugees display a very positive attitude and agency toward integration. In terms of methodology, drawings/visual narratives provided students with a ‘multimodal voice’ in a context where language barriers often challenge the expression of the multilingual self.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Quellsystem:
Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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