Migrant Communication Enterprises: Regimentation and Resistance

Maria Sabaté i Dalmau

Published by Multilingual Matters 2014

Migrant Communication Enterprises

Regimentation and Resistance

Maria Sabaté i Dalmau

In the series Language, Mobility and Institutions

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783092192

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This critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores “locutorios” (ethnic call shops) in Barcelona, where migrant populations mobilise to challenge the global private telecommunications sector as well as present-day governments. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid communicative practices.

Author / Editor information

Sabaté i Dalmau Maria :

Maria Sabaté i Dalmau is a lecturer in the English and Linguistics Department at the Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Her research interests include the study of communication and language practices in bilingual and multilingual, migration and language minority contexts, particularly in Catalonia.

Reviews

Joan Pujolar Cos, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain:

Maria Sabaté I Dalmau's work is a most welcome contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization, particularly at the intersection of migration, multilingualism and communication technologies. This book makes a compelling account of how states and the telecommunication industries attempt to control and contain migrants in how they use languages or how they access mobile communications, even as migrants develop their own forms of sociability to cope with these restrictions or circumvent them.

Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong:

In her in-depth and, at times, moving ethnography of a Barcelona locutorio, Maria Sabaté i Dalmau affords us a unique and fascinating glimpse of migrants' multilingual practices, connections and mediations normally hidden from view. This book is an important contribution to the growing literature on languages, mobilities and globalization.

Alfonso Del Percio, University of Oslo, Norway:

The extreme richness and deepness of the ethnographic analysis provided by the author provides a compelling contribution for a complex understanding of the multilingual practices and the everyday challenges faced by migrants in their everyday lives in current Catalonia. With her rich discussion of the mundane activities that she was able to track during her in-depth ethnography, Maria Sabaté i Dalmau grasps the mechanisms and sometimes contradictory logics that make and regulate social life and that contribute to the distribution of resources in society.

Adriana Patiño-Santos, University of Southampton, UK:

This book is of interest to scholars and students in Discourse Studies, Linguistic Anthropology or Intercultural Communication. It presents a very comprehensive approach and opens up avenues of inquiry into the intersectionality between language, mobility, identity and new technologies.

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1. New Steps in the Sociolinguistics of Globalisation: The Critical Exploration of Migrant Institutions of Resistance in Late Capitalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Rise of Anti-Migrant Governmentality: Prelude to the Emergence of Locutorios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Locutorios as Challengers to Established Political-Economic Orders and Sociolinguistic Regimes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. The Self-Provision of Technological Capital in Locutorios: A Diversity of ICT-Mediated Networking Practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
5. Locutorio Voices: Language and Literacy in Migrant-Regulated Discursive Spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6. Locutorios as Migrant Spaces of ‘Mismeeting’ and Conflictive Togetherness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
By Way of Conclusion: Informal Migrant Shelters in Which to Critically Explore the Mundane Alphabets of the Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
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Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 240

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Published: August 6, 2014
ISBN: 9781783092192