Outputs (3)

A dialogical approach to navigating cultural heritage and self-identification: narrative accounts of UK-born young adults from immigrant backgrounds (2025)
Journal Article
Gruszczyńska-Thompson, A. (2025). A dialogical approach to navigating cultural heritage and self-identification: narrative accounts of UK-born young adults from immigrant backgrounds. Cogent Social Sciences, 11(1), Article 2474739. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2025.2474739

According to the Office for National Statistics, in 2021, 28.8% of births in England and Wales were to non-UK-born mothers, reflecting a steady rise from 25.5% a decade earlier, and 16.5% in 2001. This paper uses Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism and nar... Read More about A dialogical approach to navigating cultural heritage and self-identification: narrative accounts of UK-born young adults from immigrant backgrounds.

Language, responsibility, and agency: How UK's immigrant‐background young adults navigate linguistic heritage (2024)
Journal Article
Gruszczyńska‐Thompson, A. (online). Language, responsibility, and agency: How UK's immigrant‐background young adults navigate linguistic heritage. The Geographical Journal, Article e12586. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12586

This study explores the intersection of agency and responsibility in navigating linguistic heritage among immigrant‐background young adults (18–29 years old) in the UK. Drawing on Judith Butler's theorisation, it provides a nuanced understanding of h... Read More about Language, responsibility, and agency: How UK's immigrant‐background young adults navigate linguistic heritage.

Maintenance and non-maintenance of community language in immigrant families: the case of Polish parents in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Gruszczyńska, A. (2019). Maintenance and non-maintenance of community language in immigrant families: the case of Polish parents in the UK. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17(5), 574-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2019.1628637

This paper examines Polish immigrant parents’ perceptions of their community language value, the factors that shape their approaches to children’s language education, and the different outcomes on the spectrum of language maintenance/non-maintenance... Read More about Maintenance and non-maintenance of community language in immigrant families: the case of Polish parents in the UK.