Immigration and bureaucratic control : language practices in public administration / by Eva Codó.
Material type: 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
- computer
- online resource
- 9783110199086
- 3110199084
- Communication in public administration -- Spain
- Immigrants -- Spain -- Language
- Multilingualism -- Spain
- Sociolinguistics -- Spain
- Spain -- Emigration and immigration
- Multilinguisme -- Espagne
- Sociolinguistique -- Espagne
- Espagne -- Émigration et immigration
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics
- Communication in public administration
- Emigration and immigration
- Immigrants -- Language
- Multilingualism
- Sociolinguistics
- Spain
- 306.440946 22
- P40.45.S7 C63 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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.
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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