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Speeding up, slowing down. Language, temporality and the constitution of migrant workers as labour force

Del Percio, A; (2021) Speeding up, slowing down. Language, temporality and the constitution of migrant workers as labour force. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 10.1080/13670050.2021.1954386. Green open access

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Abstract

This article offers an original ethnographic documentation of employability schemes targeting migrants in contemporary Italy. It argues that analysts’ current theorisations of time and space compression do not help us understand the multiple temporalities that migrants are subjected to when crossing borders, including those of labour market regimes. This ethnographic account is informed by a scholarship of migration that has extensively documented how the acceleration of movement and access to language, citizenship or work co-exist with experiences of waiting, elongation, withdrawal and delay – processes that complicate our understanding of the temporal regimes migrants are subjected to. Through a thick documentation of the experiences of unemployed migrants, job counsellors and other social actors in employability programmes in Rome, this article argues that both speeding up and slowing down are technologies of temporal management, including time–space compression, elongation and partitioning. These technologies regulate the time and speed of migrants’ incorporation into the labour market and allow the performance of processes of differential inclusion.

Type: Article
Title: Speeding up, slowing down. Language, temporality and the constitution of migrant workers as labour force
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2021.1954386
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.1954386
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Keywords: Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, Linguistics, Language & Linguistics, Language, speed, labour, differential inclusion, migration
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10137277
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