The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

Winner of AAL Book Award 2020 | Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s globalised world.Now in its newly updated second edition, this handbook broadens its scope to include chapters on the mobility of disabled people, ethics of working with vulnerable migrant groups, and diversifying knowledge production relating to mobility. This vital resource combines interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives across fields such as migration studies, geography, philosophy, sociology and anthropology.Featuring over thirty chapters written by leading experts from around the world, this book:Examines how core constructs such as community, place, language, diversity, identity, nation-state, and social stratification are being retheorized in the context of human mobility;Analyses the impact of the ‘mobility turn’ on language use, including the pa