Hornberger, Nancy H2023-05-222023-05-222007-12-012008-01-08https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/34893Herein, we are privileged to be given a close and detailed look at the lives and literacies of transnational multilingual youth and adults of diverse origins and communities from across the United States. These are multilingual lives and literacies located on the west coast, or in western mountain, southwest, midwest, or northeast U.S. There are New Yorkers of Dominican, Colombian, Bengali, and Chabad Jewish-American heritage, Mexican immigrants from Guanajuato and Jalisco in Iowa and California, respectively, and adult women refugees from Bosnia, Iran, and Sudan now residing in the intermountain west.NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Linguistics and Education. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms, may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Linguistics and Education, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, Winter 2007, 10.1016/j.linged.2007.10.001.Language and Literacybiliteracytransnationalismmultimodalityidentityimmigrationlanguage learningEducationArticle