Exploring (Im)mobilities -

Exploring (Im)mobilities

Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries
Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2021
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78892-528-0 (ISBN)
43,55 inkl. MwSt
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.
The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and emotionally constructed and negotiated. 

Anna De Fina is Professor of Language and Linguistics and Chair of the Italian Department, Georgetown University, USA. She has published widely in sociolinguistics and narrative analysis. Her most recent publication is The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies, edited with Alexandra Georgakopoulou (2020, Cambridge University Press). Gerardo Mazzaferro is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of Translanguaging as Everyday Practice (2018, Springer).

Contributors

Acknowledgements



Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro: Introduction



Part 1: The (Im)mobilization of Language Resources, Repertoires and Practices



Chapter 1. Mari D’Agostino: Multilingual Young African Migrants: Between Mobility and Immobility



Chapter 2. Necia Stanford Billinghurst: Sociolinguistic (Im)mobilities in Spaces of Migration



Chapter 3. Katrijn Maryns and Stef Slembrouck: 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



Chapter 4. Maria Sabaté-Dalmau: Controlling Migrants’ (Im)mobilities through Telecommunications: Technopolitical Governance in Telephony Advertising Discourse



Chapter 5. Massimiliano Spotti: On Being Enregistered into the Matrix of Online Knowledge: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Internet-based Dismissal in an Asylum-seeking Procedure



Chapter 6. Marco Jacquemet: From Language to Politics: Communication, Power, and Migration in the Central Mediterranean



Part 3: Spaces of (Im)mobility and Resistance



Chapter 7. Anna De Fina and Gerardo Mazzaferro: Everyday Communicative Practices and Repertoires in Contexts of Involuntary and Enforced Immobility



Chapter 8. Ana Deumert: Beachspaces: Racism and Settler-Colonial (Im)mobilities at the Shoreline



Chapter 9. Birgul Yilmaz: Language and Humanitarian Governmentality in a Refugee Camp on Lesvos Island



Part 4: (Im)mobilities, Subjectivity, Identity and Agency



Chapter 10. Mike Baynham, Bahiru Shewaye and Gomes O. Kayode: Estrangement and Home in Queer Asylum Stories



Chapter 11. Roberta Piazza: The Power of (Im)mobility: Irish Travellers’ Agentive Identities in Transit and Permanency



Chapter 12. Jan Blommaert: Postscript: Immobilities Normalized



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Encounters
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 384 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78892-528-9 / 1788925289
ISBN-13 978-1-78892-528-0 / 9781788925280
Zustand Neuware
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