Migrant communication enterprises : regimentation and resistance /
Maria Sabaté I Dalmau.
- xix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Language, mobility and institutions; 3 .
Contents;
1 New Steps in the Sociolinguistics of Globalisation: The Critical Exploration of Migrant Institutions of Resistance in Late Capitalism The Context: Technology-Empowered Migrant Populations in Urban Catalonia Method and Data: The Network Ethnographic Window overview of the Chapters
2 The Rise of Anti-Migrant Governmentality: Prelude to the Emergence of Locutorios The Post-Social State: Exclusionary Dataveillance Systems and Covert Linguistic Regimes The Telecommunications Sector: Global Capitalistic Dynamics and Ineffective Commercial Multilingualism
3 Locutorios as Challengers to Established Political-Economic Orders and Sociolinguistic Regimes From Autochthonous Local Businesses to Alternative Institutions of Transnational Survival Locutorios as Successful Transnational Points of ‘Meetingness’ and Mundane Resistance Practices
4 The Self-Provision of Technological Capital in Locutorios: A Diversity of ICT-Mediated Networking Practices Individual Mobility Projects and Subversive Communication Technology Tactics Transnational Family Units and the Collectivisation of ICT Maintaining Emotional Ties: Doing Family from a Distance
5 Locutorio Voices: Language and Literacy in Migrant-Regulated Discursive Spaces The Organisation of Silenced Multilingualisms in a Spanish-Unified Floor The ‘Everyone’s Spanish’ Paradox: Subversion and Self-Discipline in Prevailing Linguistic Regimes
6 Locutorios as Migrant Spaces of ‘Mismeeting’ and Conflictive Togetherness Migrant Identities and Power Dynamics in Non-Mainstream Worlds Fighting Linguistic Exploitation: The Language and Identity Resources of the Abused
By Way of Conclusion: Informal Migrant Shelters in Which to Critically Explore the Mundane Alphabets of the Future