Inside Refugee Support Work

An Ethnography of Language, Labour and Subjectivity

This book explores the construction of linguistic, languaged and professional subjectivities in the context of refugee support work in Austria. It becomes clear that language remains a sign of Otherness, even while being central to the services offered.

Presents a situated, ethnographically grounded, sociolinguistic critique ofpolitics of difference and inequality in contemporary Central Europe.

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.

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