Language, Immigration and Labor : Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / / by E. DuBord
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DuBord E
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| Titolo: |
Language, Immigration and Labor : Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / / by E. DuBord
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.44/973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Applied linguistics |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Emigration and immigration | |
| Comparative linguistics | |
| Ethnology—Latin America | |
| Applied Linguistics | |
| Migration | |
| Comparative Linguistics | |
| Latin American Culture | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexico Languages |
| United States Ethnic relations | |
| Classificazione: | LAN009050SOC007000SOC044000 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Language, Immigration and Labor |
| ISBN: | 1-349-45336-6 |
| 1-137-30102-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814917303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Language and Globalization