In and out of Suriname : language, mobility and identity / edited by Eithne B. Carlin, Isabelle Leglise, Bettina Migge, Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-282) and index.

Preliminary Material -- 1 Looking at Language, Identity, and Mobility in Suriname / Eithne B. Carlin , Isabelle Léglise , Bettina Migge and Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat -- 2 Language Practices and Linguistic Ideologies in Suriname: Results from a School Survey / Isabelle Léglise and Bettina Migge -- 3 Small-scale Gold Mining and Trans-frontier Commerce on the Lawa River / Marjo de Theije -- 4 Movement through Time in the Southern Guianas: Deconstructing the Amerindian Kaleidoscope / Eithne B. Carlin and Jimmy Mans -- 5 Setting up Frontiers, Crossing the Border: The Making of the Kari'na Tyrewuju / Gérard Collomb and Odile Renault-Lescure -- 6 Mobilities into (and out of) Konomerume (Donderskamp) / Racquel-María Yamada -- 7 Maroons and the Communications Revolution in Suriname's Interior / Alex van Stipriaan -- 8 On the Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact in Suriname: The Case of Convergence / Kofi Yakpo , Margot van den Berg and Robert Borges -- 9 They Might as Well Be Speaking Chinese: The Changing Chinese Linguistic Situation in Suriname under New Migration / Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat -- 10 The Role of Suriname in Haitian Migration to French Guiana: Identities on the Move and Border Crossing / Maud Laëthier -- 11 Epilogue: The Aesthetics and Politics of Multilingualism among the Saamaka / Richard Price and Sally Price -- References -- Index.

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In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the self and others, and the role of language therein. They discuss the impact of contact and mobilities on language maintenance, expansion and change. Language, mobility and identity in Suriname are observed through the lens of the actors themselves, from the ever-mobile Amerindians and Maroons on the periphery of land and society through expanding urban societies enhanced by recent migration from Haiti, Brazil and China.