This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants' trajectories and their relation with their homeland's migration history are displayed through the engagement of new multilingual practices, such as translanguaging, and how new identities are negotiated during conversational acts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociolinguistics and Migration Studies.
Chapter 1: A historical phenomenon, a new migration.- Chapter 2: Methodology - Theory and Practice.- Chapter 3: The Post-2008 Crisis Italian Migration to London.- Chapter 4: The Disavowed Community and its Multilingual Practices.- Chapter 5: The New Lingua della Giobba.- Chapter 6: To Be or Not to Be (a Migrant).- Chapter 7: Othering - A Technique to Shape Migratory Identities.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.
Giulia Pepe is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Westminster, UK.
"This book explores the construction of identity through translanguaging among post-2008 Italian migrants to London, while addressing a gap in knowledge about their linguistic repertoires." (Coirle Magee, Language in Society, Vol. 53 (1), February, 2024)
