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Through this ethnographic study, I examined literacy practices among Sudanese refugees, focusing on the ways in which refugee families make sense of and negotiate texts and practices in the U.S. These refugees relied upon literacy brokers to help them understand issues related t…

This dissertation study investigates how members of a northern California Muslim community negotiate identity, morality, and culture through the multiple uses and contexts of language and literacy. The two research themes, language socialization and literacy practices, offer a c…

This longitudinal ethnographic study explored the language ideologies and literacy practices of an Egyptian American Muslim Youth Group. Many of them are children of immigrant parents, born or raised in the United States, while a few of them were recent immigrants to the United …