Exploring (Im)mobilities : : Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries / / ed. by Anna De Fina, Gerardo Mazzaferro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Baynham, Mike,; Billinghurst, Necia Stanford,; Blommaert, Jan,; De Fina, Anna,; Deumert, Ana,; D’Agostino, Mari,; Jacquemet, Marco,; Kayode, Gomes O.,; Maryns, Katrijn,; Mazzaferro, Gerardo,; Piazza, Roberta,; Sabaté-Dalmau, Maria,; Shewaye, Bahiru,; Slembrouck, Stef,; Spotti, Massimiliano,; Yilmaz, Birgul,
• HerausgeberIn: De Fina, Anna,; Mazzaferro, Gerardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 The (Im)mobilization of Language Resources, Repertoires and Practices -- 1 Multilingual Young African Migrants: Between Mobility and Immobility -- 2 Sociolinguistic (Im)mobilities in Spaces of Migration -- 3 Categorization and the Use of English as an (Im)mobile Resource in Service Encounters with Migrants in Flanders -- Part 2 (Im)mobilities, Technologies and Control -- 4 Controlling Migrants’ (Im)mobilities through Telecommunications: Technopolitical Governance in Telephony Advertising Discourse -- 5 On Being Enregistered into the Matrix of Online Knowledge: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Internetbased Dismissal in an Asylum-seeking Procedure -- 6 From Language to Politics: Communication, Power and Migration in the Central Mediterranean -- Part 3 Spaces of (Im)mobility and Resistance -- 7 Everyday Communicative Practices and Repertoires in Contexts of Involuntary and Enforced Immobility -- 8 Beachspaces: Racism and Settler-Colonial (Im)mobilities at the Shoreline -- 9 Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos Island -- Part 4 (Im)mobilities, Subjectivity, Identity and Agency -- 10 Estrangement and Home in Queer Asylum Stories -- 11 The Power of (Im)mobility: Irish Travellers’ Agentive Identities in Transit and Permanency -- 12 Postscript: Immobilities Normalized -- Index