10. Informal Economy and Language Practice in the Context of Migrations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. 1. Introduction: Recasting Institutions and Work in Multilingual and Transnational Spaces 1
5. Part 1: Sites of Control
6. 2. Trade Unions and NGOs Under Neoliberalism: Between Regimenting Migrants and Subverting the State 24
7. 3. Skilling the Self: The Communicability of Immigrants as Flexible Labour 55
8. Part 2: Sites of Selection
9. 4. The Gatekeeping of Babel: Job Interviews and the Linguistic Penalty 83
10. 5. Language Work Aboard the Low-cost Airline 97
11. 6. (De)capitalising Students Through Linguistic Practices. A Comparative Analysis of New Educational Programmes in a Global Era 120
12. 7. From kebapçi to Professional: The Commodification of Language and Social Mobility in Turkish Complementary Schools in the UK 149
13. Part 3: Sites of Resistance
14. 8. ‘Integration hatten wir letztes Jahr’. Official Discourses of Integration and Their Uptake by Migrants in Germany 171
15. 9. Language as a Resource. Migrant Agency, Positioning and Resistance in a Health Care Clinic 196
16. 10. Informal Economy and Language Practice in the Context of Migrations 225
17. 11. Fighting Exclusion from the Margins: Locutorios as Sites of Social Agency and Resistance for Migrants 248
18. Postscript 272
19. Index 277