Negotiating family language policy: the interplay of Arabic and English in Manchester.

Recent research on family language policy (FLP) has called for critical approaches that capture the interactional nature of language policy, negotiated among parents and children This paper presents an ethnographic study on language practices, attitudes and policies in the context of migration, focusing on a Syrian family who arrived in Manchester (UK) as refugees in 2017. The article not only explores how family members manage their multi-layered language repertoires, including forms of English as well as standard and colloquial forms of Arabic, but also describes how linguistic resources are used to negotiate power positions within the family and in the wider diaspora. The article finds that, along with language users, their language ideologies, expectations and policies 'migrate' to the new setting, where they are subject to renegotiation. Drawing on notions of language policy as inseparable from practice