ERIC Number: ED647097
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 293
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De Aqui, De Alla y De Aculla: Identity, Language and Thirdspaces. A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Case Study of Syrian Displaced Students in Mexico
Brenda Sarmiento Quezada
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at San Antonio
This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnographic case study of three displaced Syrian students living in Mexico who were undergoing their university studies. Drawing upon "thirdspace" and language ideology theories this study examined how three Syrian displaced students in Mexico created spaces where they used language to construct and display multiple identities in their day-to-day life. Using this framework, this study analyzed in-person and social media interactions via Social Networking Sites (SNS) of the participants over a period of forty-four weeks. The analysis revealed that participants created and navigated thirdspaces in their new country as a way to reconcile their lived experiences with their current life while strategically shifting and performing between identities to become cultural brokers between Mexican society and their Arab, Syrian, and Kurdish cultures. As these participants created thirdspaces, they also relied on Facebook and Instagram to construct and reproduce community ties and to network, socialize, and reminisce about their "there," while reconciling their "here." This dissertation provides a steppingstone to garner a deeper understanding of how displaced students use their languages to construct identities and seeks to inform research in the second language acquisition and the education fields about the importance of expanding research beyond the classroom and into the sociocultural context surrounding displaced students to fully understand its impact in the professional, linguistic, and identity development of displaced youth. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Refugees, Language Usage, Self Concept, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks, Intercultural Communication, Socialization, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Arabic, Spanish, Indo European Languages, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico; Syria
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