Everyday racism in Canadian schools: ideologies of language and culture among Korean transnational students in Toronto

Drawing from a 2.4-year ethnography with Korean Early Study Abroad (ESA, pre-college-aged study abroad) students in Toronto high schools, I examine the intersections among race, class, language, culture and citizenship (including immigrant status) in the identity construction and language learning o...

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Published in:Journal of multilingual and multicultural development 2015-01, Vol.36 (1), p.67-79
Main Author: Shin, Hyunjung
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Citizenship
Class
Culture
Disadvantaged
English (Second Language)
ESL
Ethnography
Foreign Countries
Foreign Students
Global Approach
High School Students
Identity formation
Interviews
Korea
Korean
Language Acquisition
Language Attitudes
language ideologies
Language Role
Learning
Linguistics
Minority Groups
Mother Attitudes
Ontario (Toronto)
Race
Racial Bias
Racism
Schools
Second Language Learning
Self Concept
Social Class
Sociolinguistics
South Korea
Students
Study Abroad
Toronto, Ontario
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Summary:Drawing from a 2.4-year ethnography with Korean Early Study Abroad (ESA, pre-college-aged study abroad) students in Toronto high schools, I examine the intersections among race, class, language, culture and citizenship (including immigrant status) in the identity construction and language learning of these students. Conceptualising race as a social construct and racism as systemic and institutionalised, I employ sociolinguistic analysis of the data to link issues of race and class together and point out how the ESA students adopt class-based consumption of Korean language and products as a strategy for dealing with the racial and linguistic marginalisation they experienced in Canadian contexts as well as its consequences in their language learning. The paper concludes with the story's implications for discussing race and alternative ways of talking about privilege among racial minorities regarding transformation of the value of the linguistic capital across different linguistic markets in today's world of globalisation.
ISSN:0143-4632
1747-7557
DOI:10.1080/01434632.2014.892502