Languages in Migratory Settings

Alison Phipps is Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK, and Co-Convener of the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network.Rebecca Kay is Professor of Russian Gender Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK, and Co-Convener of the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network.

• 1. Introduction: Languages in migratory settings: place, politics and aesthetics 2. Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous’ Divorzio all’islamica a viale Marconi 3. Visualizing intercultural literacy: engaging critically with diversity and migration in the classroom through an image-based approach 4. The social and symbolic aspects of languages in the narratives of young (prospective) migrants 5. Learning across borders - Chinese migrant literature and intercultural Chinese language education 6. Constructing the ‘rural other’ in post-soviet Bishkek: ‘host’ and ‘migrant’ perspectives 7. The migrant patient, the doctor and the (im)possibility of intercultural communication: silences, silencing and non-dialogue in an ethnographic context 8. Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France