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The Social Context of Language Contact in the Informal Economy,dled around a wobbling card table that served as the Day Labor Center’s (DLC’s) operational headquarters in the parking lot of Hope Christian Church. At precisely 6 o’clock, workers distributed tickets for that morning’s hiring raffle. The sound of a voice reading off ticket numbers and the response

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The Regulation of Immigration and Language,s of society should be authorized citizens who are loyal to only one nation. Individuals on the margins of this somewhat abstract understanding of the nation—such U.S. Latinos/as or Muslims—are often perceived to be “not quite American” because of a bicultural ethnic identity or faith in a nondomina

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,“If I knew the language, don’t think that I would be here”: Shifting Understandings of the Linguistot get the kind of work he was qualified to do with Anglo employers. Mariano emigrated from El Salvador to Mexico at the age of 20 escaping the violent civil war that was unfolding. He lived in Chiapas for 17 years, and eventually left for Ciudad Juárez, where he lived for six years. Frustrated with

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Performing the Good Worker,d nationally constructed discourses that denigrate Latino/a immigrant workers reinforce their subordinate socioeconomic status. Yet, members of the Day Labor Center (DLC) demonstrated agency in the ways they responded to these ideologies through performances of the . in their everyday interactions.

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Conceptualizing Intercultural Communication,e variable meanings they assign to their performances suggest that these categories are, in fact, flexible. We understand other kinds of identities based on profession, education, or socioeconomic class as more malleable as a result of personal agency or life experience. Language identities fall som

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Language, Immigration and Labor978-1-137-30102-4Series ISSN 2947-7506 Series E-ISSN 2947-7514

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