37.1452, Books: Inside Refugee Support Work: Hassemer (2026)

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Subject: 37.1452, Books: Inside Refugee Support Work: Hassemer (2026)

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Date: 15-Apr-2026
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Inside Refugee Support Work: Hassemer (2026)


Title: Inside Refugee Support Work
Subtitle: An Ethnography of Language, Labour and Subjectivity
Series Title: Language, Mobility and Institutions
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800412835

Author(s): Jonas Hassemer

Hbk ISBN 9781800412835 £139.95 / US$189.95 / €166.95
EPUB ISBN 9781800412927 £10.00 / US$15.00 / €12.00
PDF ISBN 9781800413023 £10.00 / US$15.00 / €12.00

Abstract:

This book explores the construction of ‘languaged’ and professional
subjectivities in the context of refugee support work in Austria. It
presents ethnographic insights into how language and linguistic
practice come to matter both as part of a migration infrastructure in
transformation, and in the efforts within a particular institution to
reinvent itself as it struggles for survival in the context of
shrinking public and state support for refugee provision.
The author focuses on how transformation processes play out in
counsellors’ and volunteer interpreters’ conceptions of themselves as
professionals and speaking subjects when confronted with the political
and ethical dilemmas of an increasingly precarised work context. It
becomes clear that language, while being central to the services
offered, remains a sign of Otherness in a ‘languaged’ institutional
order.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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