About

Looking at

• the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global, transnational, and translocal processes
• the dynamics of multilingualism in located settings and the social and personal management of multilingualism
• the role (and nature) of language and literacy practices in boundary maintenance or disruption in global, transnational, and translocal movements
• language and literacy practices in access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes for mobile individuals and groups 

Themes Include

• language/ literacy, transnational networks and translocal ties
• multilingualism and the production of locality in the globalized era
• linguistic innovation, cultural ‘mixing’, and transnational/translocal identities
• language, literacy and  social selection processes in education and in the workplace in multilingual settings
• social networks as channels through which social class and ethnic group membership devolve into experiences of language

Issues to be raised

• education, training and assessment practices in relation to the multilingual resources of border-crossing and otherwise mobile persons and groups
• language and literacy teaching for migrants and acquisition of language proficiencies on the workfloor and in education
• the language experiences and learning opportunities of children as the resources of family intersect with institutions such as schools
• situated cognition, social identification, and academic learning in multilingual, multinational, and multiethnic classroom contexts;
• gendered migration, work opportunities and educational outcomes;
• ‘field sites’ and ‘home sites’ in transnational and translocal ethnographic research;
• relationships between reading, writing, work, and class amongst migrant and mobile groups of people and individuals