A sociolinguist by training and applied linguist by af filiation, Mike Baynham’s research interests lie in the application of insights from sociolinguistics to a range of educational and social issues, particularly literacy and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). He is currently Professor of TESOL at the University of Leeds. Anna De Fina is Assistant Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics and Coordinator of the Italian Language Program at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

• Introduction; Dislocations/Relocations: Narratives of Displacement; Part I: Orientation in Social Worlds; Network and Agency in the Migration Stories of Moroccan Women; Contesting Social Place; Narratives of Language Conflict; West Germans Moving East; Place, Political Space, and Positioning in Conversational Narratives; Part II: Displacement and Spacialization Practices; Dreams of Blood; Zinacantecs in Oregon; In and Out of Class, Codes and Control; Globalization, Discourse and Mobility; Working with Webs; Narrative Constructions of Forced Removal and Relocation; Section III: Institutional Placement and Displacement; Displacement in Asylum Seekers’ Narratives; The Registration Interview; Restricting Refugees’ Narrative Performances; Stories from the Court of Appeal in Literature and Law; Afterword Story, Place and Encounter