Contents

Contributors

1 Introduction: Recasting Institutions and Work in Multilingual and Transnational Spaces

Part 1 Sites of Control

2 Trade Unions and NGOs Under Neoliberalism: Between Regimenting Migrants and Subverting the State

3 Skilling the Self: The Communicability of Immigrants as Flexible Labour

Part 2 Sites of Selection

4 The Gatekeeping of Babel: Job Interviews and the Linguistic Penalty

5 Language Work Aboard the Low-cost Airline

6 (De)capitalising Students Through Linguistic Practices. A Comparative Analysis of New Educational Programmes in a Global Era

7 From kebapçı to Professional: The Commodification of Language and Social Mobility in Turkish Complementary Schools in the UK

Part 3 Sites of Resistance

8 ‘Integration hatten wirletztes Jahr’. Official Discourses of Integration and Their Uptake by Migrantsin Germany

9 Language as a Resource. Migrant Agency, Positioning and Resistance in a Health Care Clinic

10 Informal Economy and Language Practice in the Context of Migrations

11 Fighting Exclusion from the Margins: Locutorios as Sites of Social Agency and Resistance for Migrants

Postscript

Index