Full Description
This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants' trajectories and their relation with their homeland's migration history are displayed through the engagement of new multilingual practices, such as translanguaging, and how new identities are negotiated during conversational acts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociolinguistics and Migration Studies.
Contents
Chapter 1: A historical phenomenon, a new migration.- Chapter 2: Methodology - Theory and Practice.- Chapter 3: The Post-2008 Crisis Italian Migration to London.- Chapter 4: The Disavowed Community and its Multilingual Practices.- Chapter 5: The New Lingua della Giobba.- Chapter 6: To Be or Not to Be (a Migrant).- Chapter 7: Othering - A Technique to Shape Migratory Identities.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.