'Because tumi Bangali': Inventing and disinventing the national in multilingual communities in the UK

Ethnicities

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-476

  Blackledge, Adrian ^a   Creese, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Complementary schools; Heritage; Identities; Language education; Multilingualism; Nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449713574     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796809345605     Document Type: Article

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