| Migrant Communication Enterprises: Regimentation and Resistance Contributor(s): Sabate I. Dalmau, Maria (Author) |
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ISBN: 1783092181 ISBN-13: 9781783092185 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $123.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 306.440 |
| LCCN: 2014009372 |
| Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.95 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sabate I. Dalmau, Maria: - Maria Sabate 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. |