Louise Tranekjær is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include institutional interaction, membership categorization analysis, identity, processes of inclusion and exclusion and discourse analysis.

• Introduction 1. The Internship Interview – A Hybrid Communicative Event2. Gatekeeping – An Interactional and Ideological Process3. Categories and Knowledge in Interaction 4. When Background is Foregrounded – Nationality and ‘Ways of Life’5. Do You Understand? The Issue of Language6. Liquor, Pork and Scarfs – The Issue of Religion 7. Gatekeeping – The Power of Categories 8. Interactional Pitfalls and Pointers

Taking as a point of departure the seminal work of Sarangi and Roberts, and more generally of linguistic anthropology, the author manages to take us through the thick intricacies of tense gatekeeping encounters like those of internship interviews, often the first way into the (unpaid) working world for many immigrant minority youngsters. Surely, the author has got the job done right.

Louise Tranekjær is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include institutional interaction, membership categorization analysis, identity, processes of inclusion and exclusion and discourse analysis.

• Introduction 1. The Internship Interview – A Hybrid Communicative Event2. Gatekeeping – An Interactional and Ideological Process3. Categories and Knowledge in Interaction 4. When Background is Foregrounded – Nationality and ‘Ways of Life’5. Do You Understand? The Issue of Language6. Liquor, Pork and Scarfs – The Issue of Religion 7. Gatekeeping – The Power of Categories 8. Interactional Pitfalls and Pointers

Taking as a point of departure the seminal work of Sarangi and Roberts, and more generally of linguistic anthropology, the author manages to take us through the thick intricacies of tense gatekeeping encounters like those of internship interviews, often the first way into the (unpaid) working world for many immigrant minority youngsters. Surely, the author has got the job done right.

Louise Tranekjær is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include institutional interaction, membership categorization analysis, identity, processes of inclusion and exclusion and discourse analysis.

• Introduction 1. The Internship Interview – A Hybrid Communicative Event2. Gatekeeping – An Interactional and Ideological Process3. Categories and Knowledge in Interaction 4. When Background is Foregrounded – Nationality and ‘Ways of Life’5. Do You Understand? The Issue of Language6. Liquor, Pork and Scarfs – The Issue of Religion 7. Gatekeeping – The Power of Categories 8. Interactional Pitfalls and Pointers

Taking as a point of departure the seminal work of Sarangi and Roberts, and more generally of linguistic anthropology, the author manages to take us through the thick intricacies of tense gatekeeping encounters like those of internship interviews, often the first way into the (unpaid) working world for many immigrant minority youngsters. Surely, the author has got the job done right.