
Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace
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This expert editorial team present a rich range of research from diverse temporal, geographical and linguistic contexts. Qualitative analysis of workplace interactions explores migrants' lived experience and the complex relationship between language policy and actual practices. At the forefront of workplace discourse research, the editors strongly advocate an activist agenda for sociolinguistics and applied linguistics research. * Janet Holmes, Professor Emerita, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand * This book offers rich insights into the various ways in which language matters in the working life of migrants. The fine-grained ethnographic and historical contributions remind us of the crucial political dimension of language and its impact on the lives of people on the move. The volume constitutes a valuable resource for sociolinguists, applied linguists and discourse analysts. * Alexandre Duchene, University of Fribourg, Switzerland * This outstanding volume employs interdisciplinary and critical sociolinguistic, theoretical and methodological frameworks to explore the debate over which language competences and 'skills' might be regarded as adequate or not, by whom and why - especially in the case of migrant workers. It becomes apparent that the workplace continues to be one of the salient contexts which perpetuates societal power asymmetries. This book is a must read for scholars and laypeople alike who are concerned about the rising inequalities in our globalized societies. * Ruth Wodak, Emerita Professor, Lancaster University, UK and University of Vienna, Austria *More details
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Julie Kerekes is Associate Professor in Language and Literacies Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, language and power in intercultural institutional settings, and workplace communication.
Minna Suni is Professor of Finnish Language at the University of Jyvaeskylae, Finland. She is a specialist in Finnish as a second language. Her recent research projects have focused on second language learning and use in the workplace.
Content
Chapter 1. Jo Angouri, Julie Kerekes and Minna Suni: Migration and Language at Work: Current Trends and Future Opportunities for Multidisciplinary Research
Chapter 2. Florian Hiss: Contextualising Diversity, Work and Mobility across Time: Cases from Norway's 'High North'
Chapter 3. Nora Schleicher: 'Doctor Johnny': The Discursive Construction of the Medical Doctor as an Immigrant
Chapter 4. Fiona O'Neill: Multilingual Professionals, Monolingual Contexts and Multicultural Mindsets: Towards an Intercultural Mindset
Chapter 5. Marta Kirilova: 'Getting the Job Done': Conventional Expressions as Shibboleths in Multilingual Job Interviews
Chapter 6. Marja Seilonen and Minna Suni: Assessing and Analysing Health Care Finnish: Test Performance and Lived Experiences
Chapter 7. Julie Kerekes and Jeanne Sinclair: The Role of Soft Skills in Vocational ESL: Their Potential to (Dis)Empower Migrant Employment Seekers
Chapter 8. Johanna Tovar: Impression Management Games: Language and Mobility among Southern European Migrants in a London Call Centre
Chapter 9. Art Babayants: Understanding the Immigrant Actor through a Multilingual Lens
Chapter 10. Kristina Humonen and Jo Angouri: '[They] thought I didn't know how to be a chef because I didn't speak Finnish': Gatekeeping and Professional Role Enactment in a Multilingual Kitchen Context
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