Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cit©s, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity.
- Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism
- Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies
- Includes the experiences of French-Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse
- Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in a national context
