Engineering commodifiable workers. language, migration and the governmentality of the self
dc.contributor.author | Del Percio, Alfonso | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-13T09:45:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10993-017-9436-4 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1568-4555 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-1863 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://irf.fhnw.ch/handle/11654/48389 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-11104 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Language Policy | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.spatial | London | |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 - Wirtschaft | |
dc.subject.ddc | 300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie | |
dc.title | Engineering commodifiable workers. language, migration and the governmentality of the self | |
dc.type | 01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift | |
dc.volume | 17 | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
fhnw.InventedHere | No | |
fhnw.ReviewType | Anonymous ex ante peer review of a complete publication | |
fhnw.affiliation.hochschule | Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW | de_CH |
fhnw.affiliation.institut | Institut für Unternehmensführung | de_CH |
fhnw.openAccessCategory | Hybrid | |
fhnw.pagination | 239-259 | |
fhnw.publicationState | Published | |
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