De Fina / Mazzaferro Exploring (Im)mobilities

Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78892-530-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 23, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Encounters

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Fina, Anna

Mazzaferro, Gerardo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

De Fina, Anna
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 (2020, Cambridge University Press, edited with Alexandra Georgakopoulou).

Mazzaferro, Gerardo
Gerardo Mazzaferro is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of Translanguaging as Everyday Practice (2018, Springer).

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).