Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control: Language Policy, Identity and Belonging, Markus Rheindorf, Ruth Wodak (Eds.) Language, Mobility and Institutions. Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters. 2020. viii + 172 pp. Hb (9781788924672) £89.95, Pb (9781788924665) £24.95, Ebook (9781788924689) £15.00

Economic theory of language policy treats a language as an economic phenomenon. A language situation is considered to be an economic, or market, situation, while language policy becomes an element of economic policies. The paper aims to systematize and to further develop theoretical and methodological aspects of this promising research field situated between economics and sociolinguistics.

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Book Review

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v11i3.232 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 387-390

Author(s):

Antonina Levatino

Keyword(s):

Control Strategies ◽

Human Mobility ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Transnational Mobility ◽

Migration Management ◽

Nation States ◽

Migration Control ◽

Political Economic ◽

Controversial Nature

Martin Geiger & Antoine Pécoud (eds.), Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 271 pp., (ISBN 978-1-137-26306-3).In the last decades a very diverse range of initiatives have been undertaken in order to intensify and diversify the ways human mobility is managed and restricted. This trend towards a ‘diversification’ of the migration control strategies stems from the increased awareness by the nation-states of the profoundly controversial nature of the migration management enterprise because of its political, economic, social and moral implications.

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The Politics of Arabic in Israel

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420860.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Camelia Suleiman

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Methods ◽

Language Policy ◽

Language Choice ◽

Minority Language ◽

The Other ◽

Official Language ◽

Political Identities ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

The One

Arabic became a minority language in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains an official language, along with Hebrew, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalise Arabic on the one hand, and secutise it on the other. The book delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis. It combines qualitative methods not commonly used together in the study of Arabic in Israel, including ethnography, interviews with journalists and students, media discussions, and analysis of the production of knowledge on Arabic in Israeli academia.

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