ABSTRACT

Drawing insights from an ethnographic study with two young refugee-background children, this paper examines the multiple contexts that influence their identity negotiations during their first three years of resettlement to the United States. The analysis aims to expand the growing literature on funds of identity (FOI) with specific attention to structural barriers that defund their FOIs. The findings are categorised in three intersecting themes: 1) transnational and translinguistic funds of identity, which are challenged by xenophobia, monolingualism and social class barriers; 2) funds of intercultural identity, which are jeopardised by racial and religious exclusion; and 3) funds of academic identity in the home which are threatened by social class challenges. The paper concludes with the implications of the analysis for theory and practice.

摘要

本文从对两个年轻的难民背景儿童的民族志研究中汲取见解，研究了在他们重新安置到美国的头三年期间影响他们身份谈判的多种背景。该分析旨在扩展关于身份基金 (FOI) 的不断增长的文献，特别关注取消其 FOI 资金的结构性障碍。研究结果分为三个交叉主题：1) 跨国和跨语言的身份认同基金，受到仇外心理、单一语言和社会阶级障碍的挑战；2) 因种族和宗教排斥而受到危害的跨文化身份基金；3) 受社会阶层挑战威胁的家庭学术认同资金。本文以分析对理论和实践的影响作为结尾。