Includes bibliographical references, appendix and index.

1. Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship: Rights, Access, Pedagogies / Vaidehi Ramanathan

PART 1 : CITIZENSHIP: REPRODUCING, CHALLENGING, TRANSFORMING DISCOURSES AND IDEOLOGIES

2. Language, Gender and Citizenship: Re-framing Citizenship from a Gender Equality Perspective / Busi Makoni

3. Problematizing the Construction of US Americans as Monolingual English Speakers / Aya Matsuda and Chatwara Suwannamai Duran

4. Keywords in Refugee Accounts: Implications for Language Policies / Emily Feuerherm

5. 'The World Doesn't End at the Corner of their Street': Language Ideologies of Chilean English Teachers / Julia Menard-Warwick

6. A Perfect Storm for Undocumented Latino Youth?: Multi-level Marketing, Discourses of Advancement and Language Policy / Gemma Punti and Kendall A. King

7.Education Policy, Citizenship and Linguistic Sovereignty in Native America / Teresa L. McCarty

PART 2 : EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP: CREATING (AND CONSTRAINING) SPACES FOR LANGUAGE, LEARNING AND BELONGING

8. Citizenship as Social, Spiritual and Multilingual Practice: Fostering Visions and Practices in the Nishkam Nursery Project / Gopinder Kaur Sagoo

9. Re-imagining Citizenship: Views from the Classroom / Jacqueline Widin and Keiko Yasukawa

10. Classroom Meanings and Enactments of US Citizenship: An Ethnographic Study / Ariel Loring

11. (Dis)Citizenship or Opportunity? The Importance of Language Education Policy for Access and Full Participation of Emergent Bilinguals in the United States / Kate Menken

12.English Learning without English Teachers? The Rights and Access of Rural Secondary Students in Nicaragua / Rosemary Henze and Fabio Oliveira Coelho

Afterword / Vaidehi Ramanathan

Appendix

Contributors

Index

"This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded, whilst offering a powerful demonstration of the potential for change offered by individual agency, resistance and struggle. In addressing questions such as 'under what local conditions does -dis-citizenship- happen?'; 'what role do language policies and pedagogic practices play?' and 'what kinds of margins and borders keep humans from fully participating'? The chapters in this volume shift the debate away from visas and passports to more uncertain and contested spaces of interpretation." (Book Cover)