Language maintenance and identity among Sudanese-Australian refugee-background youth

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-144

  Hatoss, Aniko ^a   Sheely, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b St Joseph College   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethnic identity; Language maintenance; Language shift; Language use surveys; Refugees

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950697121     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434630802510113     Document Type: Article

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