Language, Migration and Social Mobility in Catalonia

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21123-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 121, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

This book presents the results of a research on the integration of second generation migrants in Catalonia. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews, we demonstrate the link between language and social mobility. Language is a particularly important social issue in Catalonia. A bilingual region in northeast Spain, Catalonia has been receiving foreign migration for several decades. Nowadays, some of the children of those migrants are entering the labor market. For many migrant families, providing social mobility for their children was one of their main goals. What effects does bilingualism have on the social trajectories of migrant children? Is Catalan important for social mobility? The book answers these questions focusing on the fate of three migrant communities: Argentineans, Colombians and Moroccans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Alarcón, Amado

Garzón Guillén, Luis G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
Notes on authors
Foreword by Carlota Solé

1. Language and second generation in Catalonia, Amado Alarcón and Luis Garzón
2. Social integration of migrants, language and the second generation, Amado Alarcón and Luis Garzón
3. Second generation Argentinean: between mobility and mobilization, Luis Garzón
4. Social mobility and the Catalan labor market. Analysis of second generation migrants from Colombia, Iskra Pavez Soto
5. Second generation Moroccans in Catalonia. Language, employment and social inclusion, Aitor Hernández-Carr
6. Evaluation of social mobility and language in context, Amado Alarcón & Luis Garzón
7. Concluding remarks: the instrumental and symbolic dimensions of the integration of migration, Amado Alarcón & Luis Garzón

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amado Alarcón (PhD Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2002) is Associate Profesor of Sociology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). He has published widely in the field of sociology of migration, sociology of work and enterprise and sociolinguistics.

Luis Garzón (PhD Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2006) is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the GRIAL (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Latin America) at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has published several papers on the labour market insertion of Latin American migrants.