Vera Irwin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vera Irwin plays a role.
Article
2017 Chapter 4. When networks tell just half the story: Social networks, language and social identity among Russian German and Russian Jewish migrants in Germany Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians, Isurin, Ludmila and Claudia Maria Riehl (eds.), pp. 99–134 | Chapter
Abstract
The theoretical framework of social network analysis predicts that a stronger co-ethnic network in migrant settings will support language maintenance, while a looser inter-ethnic network will weaken it. This assumption was tested by analyzing 78 interviews with Russian… read more