Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes

From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an 'ethnic' call shop in a marginal neighborhood near Barcelona. This was a late capitalist i...

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Author: Sabaté Dalmau, Maria
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2014-0097
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Keyword:Multilingüisme
Emigració i immigració
Sociolingüística
Multilingualism
Emigration and immigration
Sociolinguistics
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spelling Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimesSabaté Dalmau, MariaMultilingüismeEmigració i immigracióSociolingüísticaMultilingualismEmigration and immigrationSociolinguisticsFrom a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an 'ethnic' call shop in a marginal neighborhood near Barcelona. This was a late capitalist institution informally providing the undocumented with survival resources off the radar from governmental authorities. By drawing on interviews and visual materials gathered over a two-year fieldwork project, I report on the amalgamations of allochthonous and autochthonous codes which function as the multi-lingua franca of these alternative shelters, which have now colonized the globalized urban landscape. I argue that these translinguistic practices speak of the ethnolinguistic identities with which migrants try to secure subsistence. I show, though, that transnational populations simultaneously map their in-group codes upon a unified floor where the use of only global Spanish is fostered. Users sanction their linguistic hybridity and self-correct into hegemonic standard norms which index 'integration' and fully-fledged citizenship statuses, delegitimizing their linguistic capitals. I conclude that the migrants' grassroots mobilization of both linguistic resistance and regimentation within a single discursive space where exclusionary sociolinguistic orders could be contested uniquely unveils the ways in which they challenge, but paradoxically re-produce, the monolingual nation-state regimes of their host society.This research was funded by the following research grants: FFI2011- 26964 (MINECO; Spanish Government), conferred to the UAB-based research group CIEN (Intercultural Communication and Negotiation Strategies), and 2014 SGR 1061 (AGAUR; Catalan Government), granted to the UdL-based group CLA (Circle of Applied Linguistics).De Gruyter2015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2014-0097http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/55711reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//FFI2011-26964Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2014-0097Multilingua-Journal Of Cross-Cultural And Interlanguage Communication, 2015(c) De Gruyter, 2015info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10459.1/557112026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
title Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
spellingShingle Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria
Multilingüisme
Emigració i immigració
Sociolingüística
Multilingualism
Emigration and immigration
Sociolinguistics
title_short Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
title_full Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
title_fullStr Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
title_full_unstemmed Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
title_sort Migrants' alternative multi-lingua franca spaces as emergent re-producers of exclusionary monolingual nation-state regimes
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sabaté Dalmau, Maria
author Sabaté Dalmau, Maria
author_facet Sabaté Dalmau, Maria
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Multilingüisme
Emigració i immigració
Sociolingüística
Multilingualism
Emigration and immigration
Sociolinguistics
topic Multilingüisme
Emigració i immigració
Sociolingüística
Multilingualism
Emigration and immigration
Sociolinguistics
description From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an 'ethnic' call shop in a marginal neighborhood near Barcelona. This was a late capitalist institution informally providing the undocumented with survival resources off the radar from governmental authorities. By drawing on interviews and visual materials gathered over a two-year fieldwork project, I report on the amalgamations of allochthonous and autochthonous codes which function as the multi-lingua franca of these alternative shelters, which have now colonized the globalized urban landscape. I argue that these translinguistic practices speak of the ethnolinguistic identities with which migrants try to secure subsistence. I show, though, that transnational populations simultaneously map their in-group codes upon a unified floor where the use of only global Spanish is fostered. Users sanction their linguistic hybridity and self-correct into hegemonic standard norms which index 'integration' and fully-fledged citizenship statuses, delegitimizing their linguistic capitals. I conclude that the migrants' grassroots mobilization of both linguistic resistance and regimentation within a single discursive space where exclusionary sociolinguistic orders could be contested uniquely unveils the ways in which they challenge, but paradoxically re-produce, the monolingual nation-state regimes of their host society.
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