Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Gloria Park -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1. Poetry -- Immigrant Background Students' Names and Identities in U.S. Schools : Voices from the Underground / Lydiah Kananu Kiramba -- This Is Our Summons Now / R. Joseph Rodriguez -- Gringo or Rican or Just Me / Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velazquez -- Spaces in Between / Sharada Krishnamurthy -- "Vamos Mijo, I Know You Can Do This!" / Manuel De Jesus Gomez Portillo -- El Sacrificio de una Madre : A Mother's Sacrifice / Ana Bautista -- Domestic Tongues / Mauricio Patron Rivera -- Mariposa : A Two-Part Poem / Zurisaray Espinosa : Beloved / Jamie Harris -- Part 2. Personal narratives -- Subtle Bangla Traits / Ben Haseen -- You Had Better Turn off the Fan : Communicative Competence in Practice / Jiyoon Lee -- Como una Leona : Shielding My Son from Discrimination at School / Aracelis Nieves -- Every Word Is True : An Autoethnography to Unravel My Story / Babak Khoshnevisan -- Que^ Huong / Ethan Tinh Tri?nh -- I Lost My Language But Your Child Doesn't Have To / May F. Chung -- Pagbabalik : Does It Even Matter? / Sandy Tadeo -- My Life's Metamorphosis : Becoming Bilingual / Luis Javier Penton Herrera -- Giving back When Most in Need / Geovanny Vicente Romero -- Journeying through Transnational Spaces : A Reflexive Account of Praxis and Identity Construction / Rajwan Alshareefy and Cristina Sanchez-Martin -- Story Weaving : Tejidos de Conocimientos Que Nos Conectan al : Territorio / Judith Landeros -- Entre la Tierra y los Suen~os / Pablo Montes -- The Power of Digital Storytelling for English Language Education : A Reflective Essay / Polina Vinogradova -- Lost and Found : A Story of Reclaiming Identities / Bashar Al Hariri and Fatmeh Alalawneh -- The Weight of a Name : My Names and Stories across Lands and Time / Tairan Qiu.

"This edited book is a beautiful and powerful collection of poems and personal and visual narratives of multilingual immigrants in the United States. The purpose of this book is to create a space where immigrant stories can be told from their personal perspectives. The contributors are immigrants from all walks of life who represent a diverse picture of languages, professions, and beliefs from the immigrant diasporas within the United States. Inspired by the use of autoethnography, authors examine their own lives through poems and personal and visual narratives to share with others who might have similar experiences. Contributors are: Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velazquez, Fatmeh Alalawneh, Bashar Al Hariri, Rajwan Alshareefy, Ana Bautista, May F. Chung, Zurisaray Espinosa, Manuel De Jesus Gomez Portillo, Jamie Harris, Ben Haseen, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Babak Khoshnevisan, Sharada Krishnamurthy, Judith Landeros, Jiyoon Lee, Pablo Montes, Aracelis Nieves, Gloria Park, Mauricio Patron Rivera, Luis Javier Penton Herrera, Tairan Qiu, R. Joseph Rodriguez, Cristina Sanchez-Martin, Sandy Tadeo, Ethan Tinh Tri?nh, Geovanny Vicente Romero, and Polina Vinogradova"-- Provided by publisher.

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