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

Language, Immigration and Labor explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Focusing its ethnographic research on Arizona, a state that intensely regulates transnational migrants an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	DuBord, Elise M., 1975-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:	Language and globalization.
Subjects:	Linguistic minorities > United States. Language policy > United States. Intercultural communication > United States. Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Mexican American students > Language. Mexico > Languages. United States > Ethnic relations. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.

Table of Contents:

1. The Social Context of Language Contact in the Informal Economy 2. Globalization, Immigrant Labor, and Language 3. 'If I knew the language, don't think I would be here': Shifting Understandings of the Linguistic Capital of English 4. Solidarity, Rapport, and Co-membership: Employers' Hiring Practices 5. Performing the Good Worker 6.Conceptualizing Intercultural Contact in the Borderlands.