Language, migration and social inequalities : a critical sociolinguistic perspective on institutions and work /: a critical sociolinguistic perspective on institutions and work. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer and Celia Roberts.
• Other Names: Duchêne, Alexandre editor of compilation.; Moyer, Melissa G 1956- editor of compilation.; Roberts, Celia 1947- editor of compilation.
• Contents: Introduction: Recasting institutions and work in multilingual and transnational spaces / Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer & Celia Roberts -- Sites of control. Trade unions and NGOs under neoliberalism : between regimenting migrants and subverting the state / Eva Codó -- Skilling the self : the communicability of immigrants as flexible labour / Kori Allan -- Sites of selection. The gatekeeping of Babel : job interviews and the linguistic penalty / Celia Roberts -- Language work aboard the low-cost airline / Ingrid Piller & Kimie Takahashi -- (De) capitalising students through linguistic practices. A comparative analysis of new educational programmes in a global era / Luisa Martín Rojo -- From kebapçı to professional : the commodification of language and social mobility in Turkish complementary schools in the UK / Vally Lytra -- Sites of resistance. "Integration hatten wir letztes Jahr". Official discourses of integration and their uptake by migrants in Germany / Werner Holly & Ulrike Hanna Meinhof -- Language as a resource. Migrant agency, positioning and resistance in a health care clinic / Melissa G. Moyer -- Informal economy and language practice in the context of migrations / Cécile B. Vigouroux -- Fighting exclusion from the margins : locutorios as sites of social agency and resistance for migrants / Maria Sabaté i Dalmau -- Postscript / Mike Baynham.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Subjects: 306.44; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; Migration, immigration & emigration; Sociolinguistics; Linguistic minorities -- Employment; Immigrants -- Employment; Immigrants -- Language
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783091027; 1783091029
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