Tesis doctoral de María Sabaté Dalmau
This dissertation aims at understanding what it means to be a highly connected undocumented non-elite multilingual labour migrant networking in a marginal neighbourhood in catalonia in a globalised new economy which is moving towards its informalisation through the commodification of non-elite linguistic capitals (that is, through the hiring of migrant workers as the new word force). it explores the new ways in which migrants appropriate, subvert and re-distribute the resources provided by the spanish telecommunications sector to self-provide access to communication at the margins of both the private sector and the nation-state in a very unique type of call shop, the locutorio. locutorios are being consolidated as the alternative spaces for migrants to overcome established economic, legal, and, above all, cultural and linguistic orders and regimes in a bottom-up manner (the services that these migrant-tailored ethnic businesses offer range from sim-cards without proof of legality to the dialling of telephone numbers for the unschooled or non-literate). Simultaneously, locutorios have colonised the public urban floor as a site of migrant capital, where crucial transnational networks are maintained, established, and actualised, thus providing enhanced possibilities for gaining and accessing capitals and social relationships which are key for global trotting. in short, locutorios are a window into the ways in which migrants conduct their transnational (sociolinguistic) lives and gain a certain degree of autonomy and social agency, particularly in conducting the multilingual job of the private sector and in bridging the language divide left by the market, in challenging the surveillance systems of the nation-state and, in short, in combating social marginalisation and linguistic exclusion from mainstream society.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral ««voices from a locutorio»: telecommunications and migrant networking«
- Título de la tesis: «voices from a locutorio»: telecommunications and migrant networking
- Autor: María Sabaté Dalmau
- Universidad: Autónoma de barcelona
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 08/10/2010
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Melissa Moyer Greer
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: joan Pujolar cos
- gabriele Budach (vocal)
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