The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language by Canagarajah, Suresh;

Short description:

This handbook is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s globalised world. Now in its newly updated second edition, it includes chapters on the mobility of disabled people, ethics of working with vulnerable migrant groups, and diversifying knowledge production relating to mobility.

Long description:

Winner of AAL Book Award 2020 | Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s globalized world. Now in its newly updated second edition, this handbook broadens its scope to include chapters on the mobility of disabled people, ethics of working with vulnerable migrant groups, and diversifying knowledge production relating to mobility.

This vital resource combines interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives across fields such as migration studies, geography, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. Featuring over 30 chapters written by leading experts from around the world, this book:

• Examines how core constructs such as community, place, language, diversity, identity, nation-state, and social stratification are being retheorized in the context of human mobility;


• Analyses the impact of the "mobility turn" on language use, including the parallel "multilingual turn" and the concept of translanguaging;


• Discusses the migration of skilled and unskilled workers, various forms of displacement, and new superdiverse and diaspora communities;


• Explores new research orientations and methodologies, such as mobile and participatory research, multisited ethnography, and the mixing of research methods;


• Investigates the place of language in citizenship, educational policies, employment, and social services.

This handbook is a foundational text for researchers and students interested in migration studies, language policy, sociolinguistics, and development studies.

"The award-winning first edition is already recognized as a landmark publication in the broader discipline of applied linguistics. Still under the editorship of the great Suresh Canagarah, this second edition pushes forward earlier discourses by providing more compelling ideas for understanding language in migratory contexts and, crucially, bettering the lives of migrants around the world. As such, the handbook is not only an important academic work but, more so, an achievement for migrants — a meaningful contribution to those at the margins and peripheries."

Ariane Macalinga Borlongan, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Concepts  Introduction. The nexus of migration and language: The emergence of a disciplinary space.  Introduction to the Second Issue  1. Translanguaging in mobility  2. Nation-state, transnationalism, and language  3. Superdiversity and language  4. Neoliberalism, language, and migration  5. Space, place, and language.  6. New orientations to identities in mobility  7. Class in migration, identity, and language research  8. National and ethnic minorities: Language rights and recognitions  Part 2. Contexts  9. Regional flows and language resources  10. Internal displacement and language: A southern perspective  11. Migrant trajectories: Implications for language proficiencies and identities  12. Slavery, indentured work, and language  13. Settler migration and settler varieties  14. Trade migration and language  15. Migrations, religions, and social flux  16. Language in skilled migration  17. Rethinking (un)skilled migrants: Whose skills, what skills, for what and for whom?  18. Diaspora and language  19. Disability, language, and mobility: The case of deaf mobilities  Part 3. Methods  20. Complexity, mobility, migration  21. Spatiotemporal scales and the study of mobility  22. Narrative in the study of migrants  23. Multi-sited ethnography and language in the study of migration  24. Traveling texts, translocal/transnational literacies, and transcontextual analysis  25. Intersections of necessity and desire in migration research: Queering the migration story  26. The ethics of researching and working in multilingual refugee settings: Lessons from support agencies  Part 4. Policies  27. Citizenship, immigration laws and language  28. A rhizomatic account of heritage language  29. Language-in-education policies and mobile citizens  30. Mobility and English language policies and practices in higher education  31. Mobility, language and schooling  32. Communication practices and policies in workplace mobility  33. Language-mediated services for migrants: Monolingualist institutional regimes and translinguistic user practices  34. Empathy and walls: Knowledge construction in mobility studies.