Keywords
language identity
online practices
USA-Mexico migation
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Abstract
This article observes how a young return migrant enrolled in a cross-border university participates in social networks, in order to learn about his translingual practices (García and Wei, 2014) and understand the meanings behind them. A contextualization of the phenomenon of return migration between the United States and Mexico is provided, as well as the social and political conditions that contribute to the return of migrants. The relationship between social networks, return migrant youth, and the use of language to build identities as translingual youth is explored. A Discourse-Centered Online Ethnography (Androutsopoulos, 2008) is used to observe the online practices of this participant, and it is found that through his translingual practices he expresses his emotions; shows empathy and activism towards certain social causes; he selects the elements of his repertoire according to his audience; he practices economy of language and shows his familiar and unique repertoire.
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