Language, Migration and Social Inequalities : : A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Institutions and Work / / ed. by Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer, Celia Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Kori,; Baynham, Mike,; Codó, Eva,; Dalmau, Maria Sabaté i,; Duchêne, Alexandre,; Holly, Werner,; Lytra, Vally,; Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna,; Moyer, Melissa G.,; Moyer, Melissa,; Piller, Ingrid,; Roberts, Celia,; Rojo, Luisa Martín,; Takahashi, Kimie,; Vigouroux, Cécile B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Duchêne, Alexandre,; Moyer, Melissa,; Roberts, Celia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

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 neoliberal economic practices, globalisation and outsourcing also challenges traditional ways the nation-state has organized its control over the people who have typically travelled to a new country looking for work or better life chances. This collection provides an account of the ways language addresses core questions concerning power and the place of migrants in various institutional and workplace settings. It brings together contributions from a range of geographical settings to understand better how linguistic inequality is (re)produced in this new economic order.

Table of Contents

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