Migrant Communication Enterprises - Regimentation and Resistance

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms Transcription Conventions 1. New Steps into the Sociolinguistics of Globalisation: The Critical Exploration of Migrant Institutions of Resistance in Late Capitalism 2. The Rise of Anti-Migrant Governmentality Practices: Prelude to the Emergence of Locutorios 3. Locutorios as Challengers to Established Politic-Economic Orders and Sociolinguistic Regimes 4. The Self-Provision of Technology Capital in Locutorios: A Diversity of ICT-Mediated Networking Practices 5. Locutorio Voices: Language and Literacy in Migrant-Regulated Discursive Spaces 6. Locutorios as Migrant Spaces of Mismeeting and Conflictive Togetherness By Way of Conclusion: Informal Migrant Shelters Where to Critically Explore the Mundane Alphabets of the Future References Appendix Endnotes

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Sabat' I. Dalmau, Maria Sabat? I. Dalmau, Maria Sabata(c) I. Dalmau, Maria Sabatae I. Dalmau, Maria Sabate i Dalmau, Maria Sabate I. Dalmau, Maria Sabate-Dalmau, Maria Sabaté-Dalmau
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2014
• EAN: 9781783092185
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-218-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions; Language, Mobility and Institu; Language, Mobility and Institutions; Language, Mobility and Institu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories