Skilled Migration and Global English

ISBN-13: 9780367586171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 138 str.

Frances Giampapa; Suresh Canagarajah

Opis

This book explores a range of issues related to the role of language. It explores multilingualism and competency in English, both of which facilitate success for skilled migrants in the workplace, enabling them to contribute to development efforts in their home communities.

Spis treści

Introduction: Skilled migration and global English  1. Misplaced: language, remitting and development practice among Zimbabwean migrants  2. Deskilling and delanguaging African migrants in Barcelona: pathways of labour market incorporation and the value of ‘global’ English  3. Local villages and global networks: the language and migration experiences of African skilled migrant academics  4. Academics across borders: narratives of linguistic capital, language competence and communication strategies  5. Neoliberal governmentality and Canadian migrant language training policies  6. English: its role as the language of comity in an employment programme for Canadian immigrants

O autorze

Frances Giampapa is a Senior Lecturer in Education (TESOL/Applied Linguistics) at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK. Using linguistic ethnography, her research focuses on issues relating to language and identities within multilingual contexts as a result of increased global migration. Her contribution to the Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity (2016) investigates the positionalities and field politics of being and becoming an ethnographer.

Suresh Canagarajah is the Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project at Pennsylvania State University, USA. His most recent publication is Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations (Routledge, 2013), which won the best book award from AAAL, BAAL, and MLA. He was formerly the editor of TESOL Quarterly and President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.