This revealing analysis of everyday language use among Moroccan immigrant children in Spain explores their cultural and linguistic life-worlds as they develop a hybrid, yet coherent, sense of identity in their multilingual communities. The author shows how they adapt to the local ambivalence toward Muslim culture and increased surveillance by Spanish authorities.

• Offers ground-breaking research from linguistic anthropology charting the politics of childhood in Muslim immigrant communities in Spain
• Illuminates the contemporary debates concerning assimilation and...