Skilled Migration and Global English (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Giampapa, Frances; Canagarajah, Suresh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a range of issues related to the role of language. It explores multilingualism and competency in English, both of which facilitate success for skilled migrants in the workplace, enabling them to contribute to development efforts in their home communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429779633
• Artikelnr.: 59364819

Autorenporträt

Frances Giampapa is a Senior Lecturer in Education (TESOL/Applied Linguistics) at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK. Using linguistic ethnography, her research focuses on issues relating to language and identities within multilingual contexts as a result of increased global migration. Her contribution to the Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity (2016) investigates the positionalities and field politics of being and becoming an ethnographer. Suresh Canagarajah is the Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project at Pennsylvania State University, USA. His most recent publication is Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations (Routledge, 2013), which won the best book award from AAAL, BAAL, and MLA. He was formerly the editor of TESOL Quarterly and President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Skilled migration and global English 1. Misplaced: language,
remitting and development practice among Zimbabwean migrants 2. Deskilling
and delanguaging African migrants in Barcelona: pathways of labour market
incorporation and the value of 'global' English 3. Local villages and
global networks: the language and migration experiences of African skilled
migrant academics 4. Academics across borders: narratives of linguistic
capital, language competence and communication strategies 5. Neoliberal
governmentality and Canadian migrant language training policies 6. English:
its role as the language of comity in an employment programme for Canadian
immigrants