Growing up with languages [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on multilingual childhoods / / Claire Thomas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452574503321
• Autore: Thomas Claire
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2012
• ISBN: 1-282-13434-5; 9786613806925; 1-84769-716-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Collana: Parents' and teachers' guides ; ; 15
• Disciplina: 404/.2083
• Soggetti: Multilingualism in children; Parenting; Children - Language; Families - Language; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Different types of family and issues that only affect some kinds of family -- pt. 2. Issues at home that will affect most, if not all, families at some time -- pt. 3. Education -- pt. 4. Language policies and politics -- pt. 5. Interviewees as adults -- pt. 6. Overall analysis and recommendations.
• Sommario/riassunto: A unique new insight into multilingual families, this book views multilingual childhoods from the point of the child and is based on over 50 interviews with adults who grew up in multilingual settings. The book charts their recollections of their childhoods and includes many different types of families, discusses many of the common issues that arise in multilingual families, and draws examples from all over the world. The book fills a significant gap in the literature and resources available to multilingual parents. It was researched and written by a self-help group of multilingual parents and thus the book remains very practical and gives clear and realistic advice to multilingual parents facing choices or dilemmas. However, because of its unique viewpoint, this book also includes much new material that will be of interest to ; researchers and students of bilingualism.

Companion to urban and regional studies / / Edited by Anthony M Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, Serena Vicari Haddock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910554882603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 1-80316-210-4; 1-119-31687-1; 1-119-31684-7; 1-119-31691-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (672 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.760905
• Soggetti: Cities and towns - History - 21st century; History, Modern - 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Companion to Urban and Regional Studies -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century -- PART I: CITIES ACROSS WORLD REGIONS -- 1. Cities and Regions in South Asia -- 2. Making Cities and Regions in Globalising East Asia -- 3. Latin American Cities and Regions -- 4. Cities and Regions in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 5. Australasian Cities: Urban Change Across Australia and New Zealand -- 6. European Cities Between Continuity and Change -- 7. The North American City -- PART II: LEADING THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES -- 8. New Directions in Frankfurt Critical Theory for Critical Urban Theory -- 9. Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago -- 10. Environmental Perspectives on Cities -- 11. Feminist Urban Research: Praxis and Possibility Across Time and Space -- PART III: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- 12. A Critical-; Empirical Approach to the Use of Demographic Methods and Sources in Urban Studies -- 13. GIS in Urban Studies: A Tool of Expert Analysis, Practical Application, and Citizens' Participation -- 14. Urban Ethnography -- 15. Cities and Networks -- 16. Policy Mobilities: How Localities Assemble, Mobilise, and Adopt Circulated Forms of Knowledge -- PART IV: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CITIES -- 17. Social Heterogeneity and Diversity -- 18. Inequalities and the City: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class -- 19. The Role of Residential Context and Public Policies in the Production of Urban Inequalities -- 20. Immigration and Immigrants in European Countries -- 21. Migration and Migrants in Post-reform Chinese Cities -- 22. Migration and Migrants in the United States: The Case for a Fifth Immigration Phase -- 23. Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification: Nexuses.; PART V: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CITIES -- 24. Urban Citizenship and Governance -- 25. Policies and Policy Approaches in Cities -- 26. Financialisation and Real Estate -- 27. Housing in the Global North and the Global South -- PART VI: CLOSURE -- 28. Conclusions -- Index -- EULA.
• Sommario/riassunto: "A crucial year for writing about cities and human lives on them Twenty years have passed since the turn of the millennium, and several key events have transformed the world of cities. Events related to war and terrorism changed the whole realm of migration, from international travel, to metropolitan demographic shifts, and to neighborhood policies. Here we can name: the attacks on the twin towers in New York (2001), the beginning of the war in Afghanistan (2001), the end of the Second Congo War (2002), the invasion of Iraq (2003), the attacks in Madrid and London (2005), the Boko Haram insurgency in Africa (2009), and the prominence of ISIS in Iraq (2014). Events related to the environment have shaped international regulations, urban development policies, and political movements. Here we can mention: the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (2004), the entrance into force of the Kyoto Protocol (for reduction of greenhouse emissions, 2005), the entrance into force of the Paris Agreement (for limiting global warming, 2016), and the beginning of the Youth Strike for Climate international movement (2018). Events related to economics have changed the pace and the geographical epicenters of the world's development. Here we can name at least the global financial crisis (2008-2009), and the ascendancy of China as the world's second largest economy (2010). Events related to politics have been either the result of long-term processes or the marker for future developments, at the global, national, metropolitan and neighborhood scale. And here we can mention: the beginning of the post-neoliberal experiments in Latin America (2002), the Arab Spring (including the Syrian Civil War) and the student movements in Quebec, London, Mexico City and Santiago de Chile (2011), the beginning of the refugee crisis in Europe (2015), the ascendancy of far right authorities like Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro (2016-2019), and the beginning of grassroots social outbursts in countries like France, Hong Kong, Chile, Algeria, Colombia, and so on (2018-2019)"--