Engineering commodifiable workers. language, migration and the governmentality of the self
Autor:innen
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2017
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Sammlung
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
Language Policy
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
17
Ausgabe / Nummer
Seiten / Dauer
239-259
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Springer
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
London
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Version
Programmiersprache
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Zusammenfassung
This article examines the strategies and forms of expertise on language and communication mobilized to engineer commodifiable migrant workers. Drawing on an ethnographic account of counselling practices in a state-run Italian job guidance centre for newly arrived migrants, I examine the calculations, tactics, and forms of expertise on language and communication mobilised by job counsellors. Here, I illustrate how these tactics regulate, or “police”, migrants’ communicational conduct and promote their socialisation into a desirable professional self that can be commodified on the Italian job market. In doing so, I demonstrate that the state’s investment in the policing of migrants and the commodifiability of their labour is an investment in a larger project of societal consent for both the arriving migrants and for the forms of precarity they are believed to embody in Italy. At the same time, I argue this state agenda should not make us blind to the fact that the individuals and actors, including professional counsellors, working in these job guidance centres seem ready to invest a great deal into these spaces in the interest of pursuing another, more emancipated agenda. Indeed, in my paper I aim to demonstrate that job guidance centres are also spaces of hope where people work to support migrants who are preparing themselves for a viable future and attempting to create the practical framework for their life projects.
Schlagwörter
Fachgebiet (DDC)
330 - Wirtschaft
300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Veranstaltung
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
1568-4555
1573-1863
1573-1863
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Nein
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Hybrid
Lizenz
Zitation
DEL PERCIO, Alfonso, 2017. Engineering commodifiable workers. language, migration and the governmentality of the self. Language Policy. 2017. Bd. 17, S. 239–259. DOI 10.1007/s10993-017-9436-4. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-11104