Language, Migration and In/Exclusion in the Workplace 9781800416956
This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace, and explores the barriers and
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English Pages 232 [226] Year 2023
Table of contents :
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
