Maria Sabaté-Dalmau

Migrant Communication Enterprises

Regimentation and Resistance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Multilingual Matters
• Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781783092185
• ISBN-10: 1783092181
• Artikelnr.: 40705277

Autorenporträt

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).