Lingua (non) grata

Presentation

This book is the fruit of four years of research carried out by the team of LIMINAL (Linguistic and Intercultural Mediations in a context of International Migrations – ANR, Inalco, 2017-2021) in camps, shelters and support centres for asylum seekers. Their studies were conducted closely with those on the ground, in Pashto, Farsi, Urdu, Tigrinya, French, English and Italian, in the greater Paris area, around Calais and on the France-UK and France-Italy borders. Through an original methodology and an interdisciplinary approach, at the crossroads of anthropology and sociolinguistics, this work presents a groundbreaking perspective that examines, through the lens of languages, what lies under the surface of migration: a political experience, violence and resistance.

Directresses

Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky is an anthropology professor at Inalco, a specialist in social exclusion in India and Brazil, and a researcher at CESSMA (UMR 245), a joint research unit affiliated with the IRD, Paris Cité University and Inalco. She is also the deputy head of the French Collaborative Institute on Migration, and a clinical psychologist at Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny.

Alexandra Galitzine-Loumpet is an anthropologist, senior lecturer, researcher at CESSMA (UMR 245), and fellow at the French Collaborative Institute on Migration. Additionally trained in archaeology and a specialist in material culture, she studies both the physical things involved in the migration experience and the traces it leaves (objects, graffiti, etc.), as well as subjectivity in the face of exile.

422 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 13/09/2023
ISBN: 9782858314096