Immigration and Bureaucratic Control: Language Practices in Public Administration

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.

Key features:

• suitable for use in courses on intercultural communication, multilingualism, and sociolinguistics
• affordable paperback edition for students