1st Edition
Heritage, Nationhood, and Language Migrants with Connections to Japan
Edited By Neriko Doerr
Copyright 2011
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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The notion of "heritage" has become one of the global tropes in recent years. At the heart of heritage politics are three questions: what heritage is, who decides what it is, and for whom is the decision made. However, existing work on heritage language has rarely tackled these questions, assuming that teaching children of migrants their "heritage language" empowers them.
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1. Introduction Neriko Musha Doerr 2. Learning to Be Transnational: Japanese Language Education for Bolivia’s Okinawan Diaspora Taku Suzuki 3. Conflicted Attitudes toward Heritage: Heritage Language Learning of Returnee Adolescents from Japan at a Nikkei School in Lima, Peru Yuri Yamasaki 4. Heritage: Owned or Assigned? The Cultural Politics of Teaching Heritage Language in Osaka, Japan Yuko Okubo 5. Inheriting "Japanese-ness" Diversely: Heritage Practices at a Weekend Japanese Language School in the United States Neriko Doerr and Kiri Lee 6. Rethinking Japanese American "Heritage" in the Homeland Ayako Takamori 7. Afterword: Japan-related Linguistic Intervention Laura Miller 8. Afterword: Cross-Cultural Implications of Japanese Heritage Language Policies and Practices Krista E. Van Vleet 9. Afterword: "Dreaming in…English?" The Complexity and Unexpectedness of Japanese Being and Becoming through Language Barbra A. Meek
Biography
Neriko Musha Doerr received a PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. She currently teaches at Ramapo College (Mahwah, NJ). Her research interests include language and power (heritage/bilingual education, standardization, and "native speaker" ideologies), politics of schooling, nationalism, heritage politics, and globalization processes in Japan, the United States, and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
