4. Biography as Political Tool: The Case of the Dreamers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors viii
4. 1. Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: An Introduction 1
5. 2. Migrants from Other States of the Former Yugoslavia in Slovene Language Policy: Past, Present and Future 17
6. 3. Resisting Discriminatory Immigration Procedures and Practices in the UK and Pakistan: A Discourse-Ethnographic Approach to Exploring Migration Literacies 41
7. 4. Biography as Political Tool: The Case of the Dreamers 64
8. 5. Moving for a Better Life: Negotiating Fitting in and Belonging in Modern Diasporas 86
9. 6. Building ‘Fortress Europe’: Legitimizing Exclusion from Basic Human Rights 116
10. 7. ‘Youth should be sent here to absorb Zionism’: Jewish Farmers and Thai Migrant Workers in Southern Israel 148
11. Index 170