City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

Language, migration and social inequalities, a critical sociolinguistic perspective on institutions and work, edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer and Celia Roberts

Label
Language, migration and social inequalities, a critical sociolinguistic perspective on institutions and work, edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer and Celia Roberts
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Language, migration and social inequalities
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Melissa Moyer and Celia Roberts
Series statement
Language, mobility and institutions, 2
Sub title
a critical sociolinguistic perspective on institutions and work
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Recasting institutions and work in multilingual and transnational spaces / Alexandre Duchene, Melissa Moyer & Celia Roberts -- Sites of control. Trade unions and NGOs under neoliberalism : between regimenting migrants and subverting the state / Eva Codo -- 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 Martin Rojo -- From kebapc 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 / Cecile B. Vigouroux -- Fighting exclusion from the margins : locutorios as sites of social agency and resistance for migrants / Maria Sabate i Dalmau -- Postscript / Mike Baynham
Classification