Migrant communication enterprises : regimentation and resistance / Maria Sabaté i Dalmau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabaté i Dalmau, Maria, 1981- author.

Series:

Language, mobility, and institutions ; 3.

Language, mobility and institutions ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Barcelona.

Intercultural communication.

Migrant labor--Barcelona--Language.

Migrant labor.

Communication in small groups--Barcelona.

Communication in small groups.

Telecommunication--Barcelona.

Telecommunication.

Migrant labor--Language.

Spain--Barcelona.

Physical Description:

xix, 206 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Tonawanda, NY : Multilingual Matters, [2014]

Summary:

This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative practices, and into their own linguistic hierarchies and non-mainstream sociolinguistic orders. Here, socially displaced but technologically empowered transnational migrant populations actively find subversive ways to access information and communication technologies. As such they mobilise their own resources to successfully inhabit Catalonia, at the margins of powerful institutions. The book also focuses on the (internal) social organisation dynamics, as well as on the simultaneous fight against, and re-production of, practices and processes of social difference and social inequality among migrants themselves. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 New Steps in the sociolinguistics of Globalisation: The Critical Exploration of Migrant Institutions of Resistance in Late Capitalism 1

The Context: Technology-Empowered Migrant Populations in Urban Catalonia 8

Method and Data: The Network Ethnographic Window 16

Overview of the Chapters 25

2 The Rise of Anti-Migrant Governmentality: Prelude to the Emergence of Locutorios 29

The Post-Social State: Exclusionary Dataveillance systems and Covert Linguistic Regimes 30

The Telecommunications Sector: Global Capitalistic Dynamics and Ineffective Commercial Multilingualism 34

3 Locutorios as Challengers to Established Political-Economic Orders and Sociolinguistic Regimes 59

From Autochthonous Local Businesses to Alternative Institutions of Transnational Survival 60

Locutorios as Successful Transnational Points of 'Meetingness' and Mundane Resistance Practices 70

4 The Self-Provision of Technological Capital in Locutorios: A Diversity of ICT-Mediated Networking Practices 84

Individual Mobility Projects and Subversive Communication Technology Tactics 85

Transnational Family Units and the Collectivisation of ICT 93

Maintaining Emotional Ties: Doing Family from a Distance 98

5 Locutorio Voices: Language and Literacy in Migrant-Regulated Discursive Spaces 107

The Organisation of Silenced Multilingualisms in a Spanish-Unified Floor 110

The 'Everyone's Spanish' Paradox: Subversion and Self-Displine in Prevailing Linguistic Regimes 138

6 Locutorios as Migrant Spaces of 'Mismeeting' and Conflictive Togetherness 148

Migrant Identities and Power Dynamics in Non-Mainstream Worlds 150

Fighting Linguistic Exploitation: The Language and Identity Resources of the Abused 160.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783092185

1783092181

9781783092178

1783092173

OCLC:

875055943