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Migrant communication enterprises : regimentation and resistance / Maria Sabaté I Dalmau.

By: Series: Language, mobility and institutions ; 3Publisher: Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c 2014Description: xix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781783092178 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 9781783092185 (hbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.44094672 22 SAB
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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




References : p. 181-202 . _ _ Index : p. 203-206

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