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Title Sociolinguistic perspectives on migration control : language policy, identity and belonging / edited by Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak
Published Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Language, Mobility and Institutions
Language, mobility, and institutions.
Contents 1. Sociolinguistic perspectives on migration control: An introduction -- 2. Migrants from other states of the former Yugoslavia in Slovene language policy: Past, present and future -- 3. Resisting discriminatory immigration procedures and practices in the UK and Pakistan: A discourse ethnographic approach to exploring migration literacies -- 4. Biography as political tool: The case of the dreamers -- 5. Moving for a better life: Negotiating fitting in and belonging in modern diasporas -- 6. Building 'Fortress Europe': Legitimizing exclusion from basic human rights -- 7. 'Youth should be sent here to absorb zionism': Jewish farmers and Thai migrant workers in southern Israel
Summary Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Immigrants -- Government policy
Immigrants -- Language
Language policy.
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Discrimination.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
Discrimination
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Immigrants -- Government policy
Immigrants -- Language
Language and languages -- Political aspects
Language policy
Sociolinguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Rheindorf, Markus, 1978- editor.
Wodak, Ruth, 1950- editor.
LC no. 2019020082
ISBN 1788924681
9781788924696
178892469X
9781788924702
1788924703
9781788924689