Screen LibraryImmigration and bureaucratic control : language practices in public administration /
This original study focuses on how bureaucrats exert multiple forms of control over migrants, and specifically, how they restrict their access to key bureaucratic information. Drawing on a unique corpus of data gathered in a multilingual immigration office in Spain, this book will be welcomed by stu...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2008 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Language, power and social process [lpsp] ;
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110199086 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110199086.jpg |
| Summary: |
This original study focuses on how bureaucrats exert multiple forms of control over migrants, and specifically, how they restrict their access to key bureaucratic information. Drawing on a unique corpus of data gathered in a multilingual immigration office in Spain, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and immigration, institutional talk, and multilingualism. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (271pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110199086 |
| Index Number: | P40 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Situating the study -- Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and -- language -- Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic -- procedure -- Part II: Information as valuable capital -- Chapter 3 An illusion of information -- Chapter 4 Strategies of information -- management -- Part III: Regimented spaces -- Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour -- Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual -- practice -- Backmatter |