The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language

Winner of AAAL Book Award 2020 Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018 The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of this area, exploring language and human mobility in today's globalised world. This key reference brings together a range of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, drawing on subjects such as migration studies, geography, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Featuring over 30 chapters written by leading experts from around the world, this book: - Examines how basic constructs such as community, place, language, diversity, identity, nation-state, and social stratification are being retheorized in the context of human mobility; - Analyses the impact of the 'mobility turn' on language use, including the parallel 'multilingual turn' and translanguaging; - Discusses the migration of skilled and unskilled workers, different forms of displacement, and new superdiverse and diaspora communities; - Explores new research orientations and methodologies, such as mobile and participatory research, multi-sited ethnography, and the mixing of research methods; - Investigates the place of language in citizenship, educational policies, employment and social services. The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is essential reading for those with an interest in migration studies, language policy, sociolinguistic research and development studies.

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