Christian Bilingual Practices and Hybrid Identities as Vehicles of Migrant Integration

Linguistic anxiety, insecurity, and fulfilment of bilingual parenting: Emotional complexities experienced by Chinese immigrant families

“…In some cases, a child's loss of his heritage language causes parental emotional pain, shame, and regret (Sevinç, 2016;Wang, 2023). Among Chinese immigrant parents, the emotional and linguistic disconnect from their children has evoked profound sorrow, prompting them to liken their children to foreigners inhabiting a parallel realm, unable to bridge the divide into each other's inner world (see Wang & Piller, 2022). Parents might grapple with feelings of guilt and regret for not passing on their heritage language (Mills, 2004;Sevinç, 2016), yet they also feel an urgent need to privilege the societal language due to economic prospects and educational opportunities (Curdt-Christiansen, 2016;Wang, 2023).…”