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THE TENSION OF RE-OTHER-ING BODIES

This paper explores the efforts of migrant/refugee adult learners struggling to resettle by continuing their education and/or finding employment in Australia. The learner is placed at the centre of analysis of identity formation and literacy as embodied cultural practice, which is guiding my research in the direction of the following questions: What are the implications of being the Other? What aspects of new identities are emerging? What literacies are acquired/required? How do their literacy practices effect personal and social change? Do our learners have a (critical) voice? In looking for answers I shall draw on the well-researched and accepted concepts of the multiliteracies (Cope & Kalantzis 2000; Hamilton 2000), New Literacy Studies (Lo Bianco 2002) and multiple identities (Gee 2000-2001).