Workshop co-organized by Cécile Vigouroux, Associate Professor of sociolinguistics at Simon Fraser University, 2022-2023 Paris IAS Fellow, and Salikoko S. Mufwene, The Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago, with the support of the University of Chicago Center in Paris.

Presentation

In this two-day workshop, the participants discuss the role that economy plays in shaping migrants’ language repertoires and ideologies. We examine also various ways in which governmental institutions and NGOs prepare migrants for insertion in their new, host countries’ economies. This interdisciplinary workshop include political scientists, historians, sociologists, sociolinguists, and linguistic anthropologists. One of the key questions is how experts in different academic disciplines interpret economy, as well as the key sites where economic dynamics are deployed. One of the originalities of the workshop is to bridge the multiple areas of scholarship that address the question of how ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ economies shape language dynamics and ideologies, highlighting differences and similarities.

Videos of theWorhshop :

Opening

Antoine PÉCOUD, How does the UN Talk about Human Mobility?

Leonie SCHULTE, Linguistic (In)Security

Shahzaman HAQUE, Language Socialization of Urdu-Speaking Migrants in France: Invisible Men’s Access to the Clandestine Labor Market

Manuela MARTINI, Close Care, Distant Care: Migrations and Transnational Domestic Resources between the Mediterranean Mountains and Northwestern Europe (Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century)