Globally digital, digitally global: Multimodal literacies among Bhutanese refugees in the United States

Abstract

The chapter relates how Bhutanese refugee youth create cross-cultural and multilingual identity through new media literacies in the globalized contexts. Such practices enable individuals to foster knowledge by engaging in multimodal learning practices in U.S. schools, involving them in literacy activities within the new context, maintaining global affiliations and identities, and participating in community activities to improve the literacy and cultural environment of their families and communities. Their digital literacies have eased processes of integration and knowledge making inschool settings and helped them join a community that recognizes the importance of social relations and new geopolitical and transnational differences.