Language, Migration and Social Inequalities : A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work /

Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their citizens. A new social order resulting from neol...

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Otros Autores: Allan, Kori (Contribuidor), Baynham, Mike (Contribuidor), Codó, Eva (Contribuidor), Dalmau, Maria Sabaté i (Contribuidor), Duchêne, Alexandre (Contribuidor, Editor ), Holly, Werner (Contribuidor), Lytra, Vally (Contribuidor), Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna (Contribuidor), Moyer, Melissa G. (Contribuidor), Moyer, Melissa (Contribuidor, Editor ), Piller, Ingrid (Contribuidor), Roberts, Celia (Contribuidor, Editor ), Rojo, Luisa Martín (Contribuidor), Takahashi, Kimie (Contribuidor), Vigouroux, Cécile B. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2013]
Colección:Language, Mobility and Institutions
Temas:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1. Introduction: Recasting Institutions and Work in Multilingual and Transnational Spaces
  • Part 1: Sites of Control
  • 2. Trade Unions and NGOs Under Neoliberalism: Between Regimenting Migrants and Subverting the State
  • 3. Skilling the Self: The Communicability of Immigrants as Flexible Labour
  • Part 2: Sites of Selection
  • 4. The Gatekeeping of Babel: Job Interviews and the Linguistic Penalty
  • 5. Language Work Aboard the Low-cost Airline
  • 6. (De)capitalising Students Through Linguistic Practices. A Comparative Analysis of New Educational Programmes in a Global Era
  • 7. From kebapçi to Professional: The Commodification of Language and Social Mobility in Turkish Complementary Schools in the UK
  • Part 3: Sites of Resistance
  • 8. 'Integration hatten wir letztes Jahr'. Official Discourses of Integration and Their Uptake by Migrants in Germany
  • 9. Language as a Resource. Migrant Agency, Positioning and Resistance in a Health Care Clinic
  • 10. Informal Economy and Language Practice in the Context of Migrations
  • 11. Fighting Exclusion from the Margins: Locutorios as Sites of Social Agency and Resistance for Migrants
  • Postscript
  • Index

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