TY  - BOOK
AU  - Codó,Eva
TI  - Immigration and bureaucratic control: language practices in public administration 
T2  - Language, power, and social process,
SN  - 9783110199086
AV  - P40.45.S7 C63 2008eb
U1  - 306.440946 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
KW  - Communication in public administration
KW  - Spain
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Language
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Multilinguisme
KW  - Espagne
KW  - Sociolinguistique
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Émigration et immigration
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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