Winner of AAL Book Award 2020 | Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s globalised world. Now in its newly updated second edition, this handbook broadens its scope to include chapters on the mobility of disabled people, ethics of working with vulnerable migrant groups, and diversifying knowledge production relating to mobility.
This vital resource combines interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives across fields such as migration studies, geography, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Featuring over thirty chapters written by leading experts from around the world, this book:
- Examines how core constructs such as community, place, language, diversity, identity, nation-state, and social stratification are being retheorized in the context of human mobility;
- Analyses the impact of the ‘mobility turn’ on language use, including the parallel ‘multilingual turn’ and the concept of translanguaging;
- Discusses the migration of skilled and unskilled workers, various forms of displacement, and new superdiverse and diaspora communities;
- Explores new research orientations and methodologies, such as mobile and participatory research, multi-sited ethnography, and the mixing of research methods;
- Investigates the place of language in citizenship, educational policies, employment and social services.
This handbook is a foundational text for researchers and students interested in migration studies, language policy, sociolinguistics, and development studies.
This handbook is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s globalised world. Now in its newly updated second edition, it includes chapters on the mobility of disabled people, ethics of working with vulnerable migrant groups, and diversifying knowledge production relating to mobility.
Arvustused
"The award-winning first edition is already recognized as a landmark publication in the broader discipline of applied linguistics. Still under the editorship of the great Suresh Canagarah, this second edition pushes forward earlier discourses by providing more compelling ideas for understanding language in migratory contexts and, crucially, bettering the lives of migrants around the world. As such, the handbook is not only an important academic work but, more so, an achievement for migrants a meaningful contribution to those at the margins and peripheries."
Ariane Macalinga Borlongan, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Part
1. Concepts Introduction. The nexus of migration and language: The
emergence of a disciplinary space. Introduction to the Second Issue
1.
Translanguaging in mobility
2. Nation-state, transnationalism, and language
3. Superdiversity and language
4. Neoliberalism, language, and migration
5.
Space, place, and language.
6. New orientations to identities in mobility
7.
Class in migration, identity, and language research
8. National and ethnic
minorities: Language rights and recognitions Part
2. Contexts
9. Regional
flows and language resources
10. Internal displacement and language: A
southern perspective
11. Migrant trajectories: Implications for language
proficiencies and identities
12. Slavery, indentured work, and language
13.
Settler migration and settler varieties
14. Trade migration and language
15.
Migrations, religions, and social flux
16. Language in skilled migration
17.
Rethinking (un)skilled migrants: Whose skills, what skills, for what and for
whom?
18. Diaspora and language
19. Disability, language, and mobility: The
case of deaf mobilities Part
3. Methods
20. Complexity, mobility, migration
21. Spatiotemporal scales and the study of mobility
22. Narrative in the
study of migrants
23. Multi-sited ethnography and language in the study of
migration
24. Traveling texts, translocal/transnational literacies, and
transcontextual analysis
25. Intersections of necessity and desire in
migration research: Queering the migration story
26. The ethics of
researching and working in multilingual refugee settings: Lessons from
support agencies Part
4. Policies
27. Citizenship, immigration laws and
language
28. A rhizomatic account of heritage language
29.
Language-in-education policies and mobile citizens
30. Mobility and English
language policies and practices in higher education
31. Mobility, language
and schooling
32. Communication practices and policies in workplace mobility
33. Language-mediated services for migrants: Monolingualist institutional
regimes and translinguistic user practices
34. Empathy and walls: Knowledge
construction in mobility studies.
Suresh Canagarajah is Evan Pugh University Professor at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He teaches in the Applied Linguistics and English Departments and previously taught in the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He is the author of the award-winning book, Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmpolitan Relations (Routledge, 2013).
