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Immigration and Bureaucratic Control - Language Practices in Public Administration (Paperback)
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Immigration and Bureaucratic Control - Language Practices in Public Administration (Paperback)
Series: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]
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This original study looks at language practices in a government
agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to
transnational migrants in Spain. Drawing on a unique corpus of
naturally-occurring verbal interactions between state officials and
migrant petitioners as well as ethnographic materials and
interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship
between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion.
The book investigates how a national agency with homogenizing views
of citizenship copes with the fundamental contradiction resulting
from the state's commitment to the values of pluralism, justice,
and equality, and its function as the regulator of access to
socioeconomic resources. By focusing on information provision, the
book explores how much room there is for individual agency in
institutional contexts; and shows that what happens in front-line
talk has very little to do with allowing immigrants access to
crucial information but rather revolves around the regimentation of
language and behavior, and the enactment of social control. This
publication will be welcomed by students and researchers in the
fields of sociolinguistics, language and immigration, institutional
talk, and multilingualism.
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