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Immigration and Bureaucratic Control : Language Practices in Public Administration.

By: Codo,́ EvaMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] SerPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2008Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110199086Subject(s): Communication in public administration -- Spain | Immigrants -- Spain -- Language | Multilingualism -- Spain | Sociolinguistics -- Spain | Spain -- Emigration and immigrationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Immigration and Bureaucratic Control : Language Practices in Public AdministrationDDC classification: 306.440946 LOC classification: P40.45.S7C63 2008Online resources: Click to View

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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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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