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** Winner of AAAL Book Award 2020 **
**Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018**
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of this area, exploring language and human mobility in today's globalised world. This key reference brings together a range of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, drawing on subjects such as migration studies, geography, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Featuring over 30 chapters written by leading experts from around the world, this book:
Examines how basic 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 translanguaging;
Discusses the migration of skilled and unskilled workers, different 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.
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is essential reading for those with an interest in migration studies, language policy, sociolinguistic research and development studies.
Contents
Introduction
PART 1
Translanguaging in Mobility
Nation-State, Transnationalism, and Language
Superdiversity and Language
Neoliberalism, Language and Migration
Space, Place, and Language
New Orientations to Identity in Mobility
Social Class in Migration, Identity and Language Research
National and Ethnic Minorities: Language rights and recognition
PART 2
Regional Flows and Language Resources
Displacement and Language
Migration trajectories: Implications for language proficiencies and identities
Slavery, Indentured Work and Language
Settler Varieties
Trade Migration
Migrations, Religions, and Social Flux
Language in Skilled Migration
Rethinking (Un)skilled Migrants: Whose skills, what skills, for what and for whom?
Diaspora and Language
PART 3
Complexity, Mobility, Migration
Spatiotemporal Scales and the Study of Mobility
Narrative in the Study of Migrants
Multi-sited Ethnography and Language in the Study of Migration
Traveling Texts, Translocal/Transnational Literacies and Transcontextual Analysis
Intersections of Necessity and Desire in Migration Research
PART 4
Citizenship, Immigration Laws and Language
A Rhizomatic Account of Heritage Language: The case of Chinese in Singapore
Language-In-Education Policies and Mobile Citizens
Mobility and English Language Policies and Practices in Higher Education
Mobility, Language and Schooling
Communication Practices and Policies in Workplace Mobility
Language-mediated Services for Migrants: Monolingualist institutional regimes and translinguistic user practices
