{"product_id":"inside-refugee-support-work-jonas-hassemer-9781800412835","title":"Inside Refugee Support Work: An Ethnography of Language, Labour and Subjectivity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePresents a situated, ethnographically grounded, sociolinguistic critique of politics of difference and inequality in contemporary Central Europe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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' instutional order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonas Hassemer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800412835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800412835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Multilingual Matters Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jonas Hassemer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47637463466239,"sku":"9781800412835","price":179.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61997224-cb02-407c-8ea5-ad7c7e589f6c.jpg?v=1765116400","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inside-refugee-support-work-jonas-hassemer-9781800412835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}