The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language

In the context of recent forms of globalization, migration has engendered profound social changes and challenged scholars to rethink their disciplinary constructs. The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language surveys this controversial topic.
"This impressive, compelling volume looks at human migration and language, a growing field of study emerging from the accelerated pace of individuals and groups uprooted because of political conflict, civil rights degradation, economic woes, and religious and social persecution ...This is an excellent book." - C. Machado, Norwalk Community College, CHOICE Nov 17

Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project in the Departments of Applied Linguistics and English at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Introduction PART 1 - Translanguaging in Mobility - Nation-State, Transnationalism, and Language - Superdiversity and Language - Neoliberalism, Language and Migration - Space, Place, and Language - New Orientations to Identity in Mobility - Social Class in Migration, Identity and Language Research - National and Ethnic Minorities: Language rights and recognition PART 2 - Regional Flows and Language Resources - Displacement and Language - Migration trajectories: Implications for language proficiencies and identities - Slavery, Indentured Work and Language - Settler Varieties - Trade Migration - Migrations, Religions, and Social Flux - Language in Skilled Migration - Rethinking (Un)skilled Migrants: Whose skills, what skills, for what and for whom? - Diaspora and Language PART 3 - Complexity, Mobility, Migration - Spatiotemporal Scales and the Study of Mobility - Narrative in the Study of Migrants - Multi-sited Ethnography and Language in the Study of Migration - Traveling Texts, Translocal/Transnational Literacies and Transcontextual Analysis - Intersections of Necessity and Desire in Migration Research PART 4 - Citizenship, Immigration Laws and Language - A Rhizomatic Account of Heritage Language: The case of Chinese in Singapore - Language-In-Education Policies and Mobile Citizens - Mobility and English Language Policies and Practices in Higher Education - Mobility, Language and Schooling - Communication Practices and Policies in Workplace Mobility - Language-mediated Services for Migrants: Monolingualist institutional regimes and translinguistic user practices