Immigration and bureaucratic control : language practices in public administration / by Eva Codó.

By:

Codó, Eva, 1971-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Language, power, and social process ; 20.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783110199086
3110199084

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Immigration and bureaucratic control.DDC classification:

306.440946 22

LOC classification:

P40.45.S7 C63 2008eb

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Contents:

Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and language; Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic procedure; Chapter 3 An illusion of information; Chapter 4 Strategies of information management; Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour; Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual practice; Backmatter.

Summary: 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 c.

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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 c.

In English.

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