In this introduction, we outline the most relevant concepts for this special issue on integration
and the politics of difference. This introduction characterizes “integration” as a dominant …

The metaphor of scales is becoming popular in sociolinguistics to discuss theprospects for
migrants as they shuttle across geopolitical spaces for life and work. The metaphor has …

Population mobility, globalisation, and the Internet contribute to the change of immigration
patterns and the emergence of new kinds of identities and integration strategies. It is …

This volume on Language, Migration and Social Inequalities: A Critical Sociolinguistic
Perspective on Institutions and Work appears at a time when linguists concerned with the …

Recent interdisciplinary scholarship on transnational movements across geographic,
sociocultural, linguistic, and political borders speaks of “fluid social spaces”(Levitt and …

Identity is a central area of research and theoretical engagement for socio and applied
linguists because language use and language variation are deeply intertwined with …

This article considers interaction, negotiation and exchange across the borders of systems of
knowledge, be they disciplines, moral frameworks, cultures or ideologies, by focusing on …

This paper contributes to disentangling hybridity from assumptions about marginality,
resistance and the dissolution of boundaries in sociolinguistic scholarship. To do so, it …

We start by taking the reader through what superdiversity means and why we believe that a
research orientation on migration and mobility needs these days to keep itself occupied with …

This edited volume presents Alternative Voices in the contexts of present-day and historical
globalisation, the emergence of the knowledge society, increased global-local or glocal …