This paper is based on the ethnographic multiple case study of four refugee background youths from Burma at four different schools in a midwestern urban school district in the US. My research finds that the normalization of English constructed the focal youths' language-related identities. I also argue that through this normalization, language difference between school and home became a difference that marginalized the focal youth in their class and racialized their subjectivity.

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美国学校缅甸/缅甸难民背景青年的英语规范化和身份建构

本文基于对美国中西部城市学区四所不同学校的四名来自缅甸的难民背景青年的民族志多重案例研究。我的研究发现，英语的正常化建构了焦点青年的语言相关身份。我还认为，通过这种正常化，学校和家庭之间的语言差异成为一种差异，使班级中的焦点青年边缘化并种族化了他们的主观性。