Format:
1 online resource (254 pages)
ISBN:
9783110199086
Series Statement:
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] Ser v.20
Content:
This original study focuses on how bureaucrats exert multiple forms of control over migrants, and specifically, how they restrict their access to key bureaucratic information. Drawing on a unique corpus of data gathered in a multilingual immigration office in Spain, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and immigration, institutional talk, and multilingualism.
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and language -- Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic procedure -- Chapter 3 An illusion of information -- Chapter 4 Strategies of information management -- Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour -- Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual practice -- Backmatter.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195897
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110195897
Additional Edition:
Print version Immigration and Bureaucratic Control Language Practices in Public Administration
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=364688
