Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Recasting Institutions and Work in Multilingual and Transnational Spaces -- Part 1: Sites of Control -- 2. Trade Unions and NGOs Under Neoliberalism: Between Regimenting Migrants and Subverting the State -- 3. Skilling the Self: The Communicability of Immigrants as Flexible Labour -- Part 2: Sites of Selection -- 4. The Gatekeeping of Babel: Job Interviews and the Linguistic Penalty -- 5. Language Work Aboard the Low-cost Airline -- 6. (De)capitalising Students Through Linguistic Practices. A Comparative Analysis of New Educational Programmes in a Global Era -- 7. From kebapçi to Professional: The Commodification of Language and Social Mobility in Turkish Complementary Schools in the UK -- Part 3: Sites of Resistance -- 8. 'Integration hatten wir letztes Jahr'. Official Discourses of Integration and Their Uptake by Migrants in Germany -- 9. Language as a Resource. Migrant Agency, Positioning and Resistance in a Health Care Clinic -- 10. Informal Economy and Language Practice in the Context of Migrations -- 11. Fighting Exclusion from the Margins: Locutorios as Sites of Social Agency and Resistance for Migrants -- Postscript -- Index