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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814917303321

Autore

DuBord E

Titolo

Language, Immigration and Labor : Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / / by E. DuBord

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-45336-6

1-137-30102-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Language and Globalization

Classificazione

LAN009050SOC007000SOC044000

Disciplina

306.44/973

Soggetti

Applied linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Emigration and immigration

Comparative linguistics

Ethnology—Latin America

Applied Linguistics

Migration

Comparative Linguistics

Latin American Culture

Mexico Languages

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 The Social Context of Language Contact in the Informal Economy; Language and Globalization; Language and Borders; The Day Labor Center; Addressing a Local Issue; Getting Started; Daily Operations; Negotiating Space; Research Perspective; People at the Day Labor Center; Terminology; Workers; Old Timers; Employers; Volunteers; Language Brokers; Overview of Contents; 2 The Regulation of Immigration and Language; Immigration Law and the Social Construction of "Illegality"; Arizona Immigration Law

Everyday Discourses of Citizenship and "Illegality"Performing Cultural



Citizenship; Language Ideologies and National Identity; Proposition 300 "Public Program Eligibility"; Proposition 103 "English as the Official Language"; Bilingual Education and Unauthorized Accents; Everyday Practices of Linguistic Exclusion; Globalization, Immigrant Labor, and Language; 3 "If I knew the language, don't think that I would be here": Shifting Understandings of the Linguistic Capital of English; Linguistic Capital; Language Barriers; Employment Abuses; Consumer Barriers; Changes in the Linguistic "Field"

Becoming Language LearnersESL Classes and English on the Job; English at the Day Labor Center; The Realities of Speaking English; 4 Solidarity, Rapport, and Co-membership: Employers' Hiring Practices; Gatekeeping Encounters; Negotiating Work at the Day Labor Center; Rapport, Co-membership, and Solidarity in Job Interviews; Rapport, Solidarity, and Linguistic Accommodation; Perceptions of Convergent and Divergent Linguistic Accommodation; Co-membership without Solidarity; Negotiating from a Powerful Perch; Conclusions; 5 Performing the Good Worker; Performative Acts

Preemptive Performances and Social PositioningPerforming the Good Worker; Hardworking Docility; Physical and Technical Masculinity; Performing Bilingualism; Inauthentic Performances; Documentation, Language, and Race; Conclusions; 6 Conceptualizing Intercultural Communication; Identity Formation; Intercultural Communication; Rethinking Intercultural Communication; Identities in Contact; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speaking immigrant day laborers in Arizona. It examines the value of speaking English in this context and the dynamics of intercultural communication in fast-paced job negotiations.