Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace

Jo Angouri, Julie Kerekes, Minna Suni

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781800416932
• eBook ISBN:
  9781800416963
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Social Sciences

In today's globalised world, large-scale migration is the norm. A contributing factor to the successful settlement of migrants is the ability to access work and economic security. This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace, and explores the barriers and support they encounter. The editors bring together studies which look at the ways in which inclusion and exclusion from the workplace are done linguistically from historical, discourse analytical, narrative and language assessment perspectives. The chapters represent an innovative, holistic, intersectional and multidisciplinary approach to the subject, and illustrate a wide range of analytical methods and theoretical tools for the study of multilingualism and professional identity. The rich empirical data contained in the book cover a variety of professional contexts and countries, and the book will appeal to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• 1. Migration and Language at Work: Current Trends and Future Opportunities for Multidisciplinary Research
• 2. Contextualising Diversity, Work and Mobility Across Time: Cases from Norway’s ‘High North
• 3. ‘Doctor Johnny’: The Discursive Construction of the Medical Doctor as an Immigrant
• 4. Multilingual Professionals, Monolingual Contexts and Multicultural Mindsets: Towards an Intercultural Mindset
• 5. ‘Getting the job done’: Conventional Expressions as Shibboleths in Multilingual Job Interviews
• 6. Assessing and Analysing Health Care Finnish: Test Performance and Lived Experiences
• 7. The Role of Soft Skills in Vocational ESL: Their Potential to (Dis)Empower Migrant Employment Seekers
• 8. Impression Management Games: Language and Mobility among Southern European Migrants in a London Call Centre
• 9. Understanding the Immigrant Actor through a Multilingual Lens
• 10. ‘[They] thought I didn’t know how to be a chef because I didn’t speak Finnish’: Gatekeeping and Professional Role Enactment in a Multilingual Kitchen Context
• Index