ABSTRACT
This handbook explores the interface between language and human mobility, which is gaining considerable geopolitical significance and generating scholarly inquiry. While language and semiotic resources are becoming important in mediating, regulating, and shaping migrant processes, mobility is also motivating a lot of rethinking on the understanding of language uses and forms. As scholars from the humanities and social sciences undertaking migration studies are beginning to address the role of language, applied linguists are borrowing from constructs in migration studies to understand communicative practices in mobile contexts. Such work is taking place in different academic and social spaces as it relates to particular themes and issues of interest to diverse scholars. This handbook endeavors to home in on the language/mobility nexus so that interdisciplinary scholars can take stock of the emergent scholarship for critical reflection and further development.
