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

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.

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