Linguistic Capital, Information Access and Economic Opportunity among Rural Young Adults in Western China*

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dc.contributor.authorHannum, Emily C.
dc.contributor.authorCherng, Huayu Sebastian
dc.date2023-05-17T09:35:03.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T19:05:04Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T19:05:04Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-01
dc.date.submitted2014-09-06T21:38:15-07:00
dc.description.abstractFacility with a country’s dominant language, a key form of linguistic capital, has a role to play in processes of social stratification and mobility, and this role is poorly understood. We have sought, in this paper, to explore access to this form of linguistic capital, and the implications of possessing linguistic capital, for a group of young adults who have been historically disadvantaged: rural young adults in western minority areas. Three main results emerge. First, there is a great deal of variability in linguistic capital, defined as standard Mandarin facility, across provinces and ethnic groups covered in the CHES sample. The greatest gap appears in Xinjiang, where Han residents have very high facility in standard Mandarin, and where minority residents report very low facility. In some provinces in the CHES sample, there are minimal differences between majority and minority populations. Second, standard Mandarin facility is tied to information access, in the form of Internet use. Facility in minority languages is not. Third, Mandarin facility, but not minority language facility, is linked to economic opportunity in young adulthood.
dc.description.commentsThis version is a 2014 working paper. Manuscript subsequently published in: Gustafsson, B., Hasmath, R. and Sai, D., eds. (2017) Ethnicity and Inequality in China. New York and Oxford: Routledge. Chinese Version: 中国少数民族的差异性研究 (社会科学文献出版社)
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dc.source.journalAsia-Pacific Education, Language Minorities and Migration (ELMM) Network Working Paper Series
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dc.subject.otherlanguage
dc.subject.otherinformation
dc.subject.otherinequality
dc.subject.otherrural
dc.subject.otheryouth
dc.subject.otherChina
dc.subject.otherAsian Studies
dc.subject.otherBilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
dc.subject.otherCurriculum and Instruction
dc.subject.otherDemography, Population, and Ecology
dc.subject.otherEducational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
dc.subject.otherEducational Sociology
dc.subject.otherFirst and Second Language Acquisition
dc.subject.otherInternational and Comparative Education
dc.subject.otherLinguistics
dc.subject.otherRace and Ethnicity
dc.titleLinguistic Capital, Information Access and Economic Opportunity among Rural Young Adults in Western China*
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