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<font face="Courier New, Courier">CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>
<br>
Persons interested in participating in the Panel on Ideologies and<br>
Language Practices in Immigrant Services may contact Melissa G.
Moyer<br>
(melissa.moyer@uab.es) or Luisa Martin Rojo (luisa.rojo@uam.es)
before<br>
October 26, 2002. A short abstract is needed by this date in order
to<br>
submit the panel proposals with the participants.<br><br>
<br><br>
IPrA
PANEL ON IDEOLOGIES AND LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN IMMIGRANT<br>
SERVICES<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
Organized by: Luisa Martin Rojo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
and<br>
Melissa G. Moyer (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)<br><br>
<br>
Discussants: Jan Blommaert (University of Ghent), Jim Collins
(State<br>
University of New York, Albany)<br><br>
<br><br>
Colloquium Theme<br><br>
<br>
Immigration from so-called developing countries to the developed world
as<br>
part of a global trend in present day economies is a key issue on
the<br>
political agendas in many countries. The need for a cheap
workforce,<br>
together with the absence of policies aimed at the integration of
immigrant<br>
workers in host societies produces segregation, and social
tensions.<br>
Conflict also exists in countries with general social policies and
services<br>
addressed specifically to immigrants, promoting the competition
between<br>
local inhabitants and newly arrived immigrants over limited resources.
In<br>
many cases policies oriented to transform these societies,
encouraging<br>
integration and cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity are
often<br>
unfeasible, because they do not always have the support of the
population.<br>
This colloquium seeks to critically examine these policies and
their<br>
effects by addressing language practices and institutional ideologies
in<br>
the institutional context. The presentations in this session focus on
the<br>
general social services available to immigrants. Attention is
also<br>
dedicated to the emergence and functioning of mediating agencies,
supported<br>
by the public administration and NGOs created to inform and
facilitate<br>
these services and benefits to immigrants. Other aspects that are<br>
considered are the asymmetric social relations present in those
contexts<br>
where locally born institutional representatives, immigrant service<br>
seekers, and cultural mediators interact. Language data is
carefully<br>
analyzed since it is the locus of struggle and ideological conflict.
Social<br>
categorizations and ethnic stereotypes are constructed through language
in<br>
interactions and they influence the complex and rich
inferential<br>
processes, such as the support the interlocutors need, and the
information<br>
and knowledge they already have. Thus, in order to understand the<br>
interactional dynamics it is necessary to take into account nationalist
and<br>
cultural ideologies. Presentations in this colloquia also address
the<br>
analysis of interactions in different types of immigrant services with
the<br>
goal of linking local level processes with their wider societal meaning
in<br>
order to achieve a better understanding of the mechanisms that produce
and<br>
sustain social inequality and racism in present day societies.<br><br>
<br>
Luisa and Melissa<br><br>
<br>
Dr. Melissa G. Moyer<br>
Department de Filologia Anglesa<br>
Edifici B<br>
Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona<br>
08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona<br>
Spain<br><br>
<br>
Phone: (34) 935812326<br>
Fax: (34) 935812001<br><br>
<br>
e-mail: melissa.moyer@uab.es<br><br>
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Luisa Martin Rojo<br>
Depto. de Linguistica, Logica, Lenguas modernas y Filosofia de la
Ciencia<br>
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid<br>
Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco<br>
28049 Madrid<br>
tel. +34 91 397 87 07<br>
fax.: +34 91 397 44 98<br>
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