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Undocumented migration, informal economic work and peripheral multilingualism: challenges to neoliberal regimes?

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2018-06-01
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Sabaté Dalmau, Maria
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Sabaté Dalmau, Maria; . (2018) . Undocumented migration, informal economic work and peripheral multilingualism: challenges to neoliberal regimes?. Language And Intercultural Communication, 2018, vol. 18, núm. 4, p. 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2018.1478848.
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This article investigates the intersections of spatial immobility and informal work among homeless Ghanaian migrants and how these interplay with their multilingual practices. By analysing personal-life narratives and conversations recorded over a two-year ethnography in a bench in Catalonia, it shows that informants practice immobility to gatekeep subsistence resources. They present themselves as dispossessed of welfare rights and belie unregistered economic tasks. They establish non-legitimised translinguistic normativities for intercultural communication yet engage in linguistic regimes demanding 'integration' through the nation-state language. This reveals how undocumented migrants challenge but simultaneously perpetuate the neoliberal work/legality conditions and sociolinguistic orders to which they are subjected, which positions them as 'illegal', 'de-skilled' and 'languageless' non-citizens.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67930
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2018.1478848
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Language And Intercultural Communication, 2018, vol. 18, núm. 4, p. 362-376
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