This book explores the lives of five Mexican immigrant-origin youths in the United States, documenting their language and literacy journeys over an eight-year period from adolescence to young adulthood.

Chapter 1. Starting the Journey: Introducing the Study, Youth, and Their Stories.- Chapter 2. Understanding Languages and Literacies of Immigrant Multilingual Youth: Insights from Theory and Research.- Chapter 3. Developing Understandings Over Time and Across Contexts.- Chapter 4. "To Make Something of Myself": Interactional Histories in the Context of Remedial Institutional Practices and Immigration Policies.- Chapter 5. "It’s Going to Take a While for This Country to Get Used to Us": School and Vocational Interactional Histories in the Context of Immigration Policies.- Chapter 6. From "An Inspiration" to "Not Knowing the Basics": Tensions between Classroom Interactional Histories and Institutional Expectations.- Chapter 7. Becoming A "Mexican Feminist": Disciplinary Becoming through Interactional Histories Across Communities and Contexts.- Chapter 8. Using Informal Bilingual Resources, "Jumping" and "Giving Double": Interactional Histories Across School and Religious Communities.- Chapter 9. Building Equitable Futures for Immigrant-Origin Multilingual Youth: Conclusions and Implications of Longitudinal Interactional Histories.

This book explores the lives of five Mexican immigrant-origin youths in the United States, documenting their language and literacy journeys over an eight-year period from adolescence to young adulthood. In these qualitative case studies, the author uses a “longitudinal interactional histories approach” (LIHA) to explore literacy events in which the young people participated over time, telling the stories behind texts they created in order to better understand opportunities for bilingual and biliterate development available inside and outside of formal schooling. The book begins with an overview and exploration of theories and research underpinning the project, with a focus on countering minoritizing discourses faced by many multilingual immigrant youth and prioritizing the “goodness” of their experiences. The study’s methodology, including LIHA, is presented, before individual case studies of all five youth are explored. The book closes with a synthesis of these cases and exploration of pedagogical, policy, and research implications. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of education, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as teachers and policy-makers working with bilingual and biliterate immigrant youth. Amanda Kibler is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at Oregon State University, USA. Her work focuses on better understanding the language and literacy development of multilingual children and adolescents from immigrant backgrounds and using these insights to support educators in providing more equitable learning opportunities for all students.

Offers a unique perspective on bilingualism, multilingualism and bi-literacy among immigrant-origin youth Contextualises individual language and literacy journeys within the broader framework of immigration and bilingualism in the USA Presents insights from an eight-year, multi-site longitudinal study

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