Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project in the Departments of Applied Linguistics and English at Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Introduction

PART 1

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 Identity in Mobility



7. Social Class in Migration, Identity and Language Research



8. National and Ethnic Minorities: Language rights and recognition






PART 2




9. Regional Flows and Language Resources



10. Displacement and Language



11. Migration trajectories: Implications for language proficiencies and identities



12. Slavery, Indentured Work and Language



13. Settler Varieties



14. Trade Migration



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






PART 3




19. Complexity, Mobility, Migration



20. Spatiotemporal Scales and the Study of Mobility



21. Narrative in the Study of Migrants



22. Multi-sited Ethnography and Language in the Study of Migration



23. Traveling Texts, Translocal/Transnational Literacies and Transcontextual Analysis



24. Intersections of Necessity and Desire in Migration Research






PART 4




25. Citizenship, Immigration Laws and Language



26. A Rhizomatic Account of Heritage Language: The case of Chinese in Singapore



27. Language-In-Education Policies and Mobile Citizens



28. Mobility and English Language Policies and Practices in Higher Education



29. Mobility, Language and Schooling



30. Communication Practices and Policies in Workplace Mobility



31. Language-mediated Services for Migrants: Monolingualist institutional regimes and translinguistic user practices