TY - BOOK ID - 78641439 TI - Migrant Communication Enterprises : Regimentation and Resistance PY - 2014 SN - 1783092203 178309219X 9781783092192 PB - Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, DB - UniCat KW - Intercultural communication KW - Migrant labor KW - Communication in small groups KW - Telecommunication KW - Electric communication KW - Mass communication KW - Telecom KW - Telecommunication industry KW - Telecommunications KW - Communication KW - Information theory KW - Telecommuting KW - Small group communication KW - Small groups KW - Labor, Migrant KW - Migrant workers KW - Migrants (Migrant labor) KW - Migratory workers KW - Transient labor KW - Employees KW - Casual labor KW - Cross-cultural communication KW - Culture KW - Cross-cultural orientation KW - Cultural competence KW - Multilingual communication KW - Technical assistance KW - Language KW - Anthropological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641439 AB - This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative practices, and into their own linguistic hierarchies and non-mainstream sociolinguistic orders. Here, socially displaced but technologically empowered transnational migrant populations actively find subversive ways to access information and communication technologies. As such they mobilise their own resources to successfully inhabit Catalonia, at the margins of powerful institutions. The book also focuses on the (internal) social organisation dynamics, as well as on the simultaneous fight against, and re-production of, practices and processes of social difference and social inequality among migrants themselves. ER -