Sabaté-Dalmau Migrant Communication Enterprises

Regimentation and Resistance
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78309-220-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Language, Mobility and Institutions

This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative practices, and into their own linguistic hierarchies and non-mainstream sociolinguistic orders. Here, socially displaced but technologically empowered transnational migrant populations actively find subversive ways to access information and communication technologies. As such they mobilise their own resources to successfully inhabit Catalonia, at the margins of powerful institutions. The book also focuses on the (internal) social organisation dynamics, as well as on the simultaneous fight against, and re-production of, practices and processes of social difference and social inequality among migrants themselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabaté-Dalmau, Maria

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Acronyms

Transcription Conventions

1. New Steps into the Sociolinguistics of Globalisation: The Critical Exploration of Migrant Institutions of Resistance in Late Capitalism

2. The Rise of Anti-Migrant Governmentality Practices: Prelude to the Emergence of Locutorios

3. Locutorios as Challengers to Established Politic-Economic Orders and Sociolinguistic Regimes

4. The Self-Provision of Technology Capital in Locutorios: A Diversity of ICT-Mediated Networking Practices

5. Locutorio Voices: Language and Literacy in Migrant-Regulated Discursive Spaces

6. Locutorios as Migrant Spaces of Mismeeting and Conflictive Togetherness

By Way of Conclusion: Informal Migrant Shelters Where to Critically Explore the Mundane Alphabets of the Future

References

Appendix

Endnotes

Über Autor(innen)

Sabaté-Dalmau, Maria
Maria Sabaté-Dalmau (MA, Linguistic Anthropology, UofT; PhD, English Studies, UAB) is Associate Professor at University of Lleida, where she conducts critical sociolinguistic ethnographic research on (im)mobilities and multilingualism. She is chair of the board of Catalan Sociolinguistics Society. Her work includes Migrant Communication Spaces: Regimentation and Resistance (Multilingual Matters, 2014).

Maria Sabaté i Dalmau is a lecturer in the English and Linguistics Department at the Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Her research interests include the study of communication and language practices in bilingual and multilingual, migration and language minority contexts, particularly in Catalonia.