Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a failing U. S. public school through their first two years in universities colleges and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from new literacy and mobility studies are employed to investigate relations among patterns of movement and literacy practices across educational institutions neighborhoods cultures and national borders. By following research participantsâ trajectories in and across scenes of literacy in school college home online in transit and elsewhere the work illustrates how students help constitute and connect one scene of literacy with others in their daily lives; how their mobile literacies produce maintain and disrupt social relations and identities with respect to race gender class language and nationality; and how they draw upon multiple literacies and linguistic resources to accommodate resist and transform dominant discourses. . Language: English