This talk draws on a national study of Iranian immigrant parents whose children attend community-based Persian language programs across the United States. Findings show that parents' experiences of racialization and immigration inform how they talk to their children about Iran and its sociopolitical relations with the U.S., as well as their language ideologies, family language practices, and goals for their children's heritage language education.
About the Speaker
Yalda M. Kaveh is an associate professor of Bilingual Education at the Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Her research, teaching, and service focus on language policy, bi/multilingualism in (im)migrant families, family engagement in education, and culturally sustaining pedagogies. Currently, Kaveh is a Visiting Scholar in residence at the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies