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 lang

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

1. Translanguaging in Mobility


2. Nation-State, Transnationalism, and Language


3. Superdiversity and Language


4. Neoliberalism, Language and Migration


5. Space, Place, and Language


6. New Orientations to Identity in Mobility


7. Social Class in Migration, Identity and Language Research


8. National and Ethnic Minorities: Language rights and recognition




PART 2



9. Regional Flows and Language Resources


10. Displacement and Language


11. Migration trajectories: Implications for language proficiencies and identities


12. Slavery, Indentured Work and Language


13. Settler Varieties


14. Trade Migration


15. Migrations, Religions, and Social Flux


16. Language in Skilled Migration


17. Rethinking (Un)skilled Migrants: Whose skills, what skills, for what and for whom?


18. Diaspora and Language




PART 3



19. Complexity, Mobility, Migration


20. Spatiotemporal Scales and the Study of Mobility


21. Narrative in the Study of Migrants


22. Multi-sited Ethnography and Language in the Study of Migration


23. Traveling Texts, Translocal/Transnational Literacies and Transcontextual Analysis


24. Intersections of Necessity and Desire in Migration Research




PART 4



25. Citizenship, Immigration Laws and Language


26. A Rhizomatic Account of Heritage Language: The case of Chinese in Singapore


27. Language-In-Education Policies and Mobile Citizens


28. Mobility and English Language Policies and Practices in Higher Education


29. Mobility, Language and Schooling


30. Communication Practices and Policies in Workplace Mobility


31. Language-mediated Services for Migrants: Monolingualist institutional regimes and translinguistic user practices