Exploring (Im)mobilities : Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries.
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TextSeries: EncountersPublisher: Bristol : Channel View Publications, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type: - text
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Intro -- DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/DEFINA5297 -- 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 Internet-based 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.
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.
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