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In the globalised urban spaces of today, we constantly become consumers and clients of companies, shops, and restaurants that are considered as part of ‘migrant economies’. This concept entails a variety of factors, e.g. when providing ‘ethnic’ services, pooling on national networks, or owned my ‘migrants’, while not necessarily reflecting the linguistic situation at hand. In my presentation, I will thus discuss the affordances and constraints of the concept of migrant economies from a sociolinguistic perspective: what does it tell us, why is it of analytical relevance for us – and what does it erase? In order to provide illustrative material, I will draw on an on-going sociolinguistic ethnography project on Thai massage in Vienna.
Mi-Cha Flubacher is post doc assistant in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include the economic commodification of language and multilingualism, language as a site of the reproduction of social inequality, and questions of language, gender, and race/ethnicity. She has co-authored Language Investment and Employability: The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-edited Language, Education and Neoliberalism: Critical Studies in Neoliberalism (Multilingual Matters, 2017).
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