Migrant Communication Enterprises : : Regimentation and Resistance / / Maria Sabaté i Dalmau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Sabaté i Dalmau, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative practices, and into their own linguistic hierarchies and non-mainstream sociolinguistic orders. Here, socially displaced but technologically empowered transnational migrant populations actively find subversive ways to access information and communication technologies. As such they mobilise their own resources to successfully inhabit Catalonia, at the margins of powerful institutions. The book also focuses on the (internal) social organisation dynamics, as well as on the simultaneous fight against, and re-production of, practices and processes of social difference and social inequality among migrants themselves.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acronyms -- Transcription Conventions -- Acknowledgements -- 1. New Steps in the Sociolinguistics of Globalisation: The Critical Exploration of Migrant Institutions of Resistance in Late Capitalism -- 2. The Rise of Anti-Migrant Governmentality: Prelude to the Emergence of Locutorios -- 3. Locutorios as Challengers to Established Political-Economic Orders and Sociolinguistic Regimes -- 4. The Self-Provision of Technological Capital in Locutorios: A Diversity of ICT-Mediated Networking Practices -- 5. Locutorio Voices: Language and Literacy in Migrant-Regulated Discursive Spaces -- 6. Locutorios as Migrant Spaces of 'Mismeeting' and Conflictive Togetherness -- By Way of Conclusion: Informal Migrant Shelters in Which to Critically Explore the Mundane Alphabets of the Future -- Notes -- References -- Index