Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Internship Interview - A Hybrid Communicative Event -- 2. Gatekeeping - An Interactional and Ideological Process -- 3. Categories and Knowledge in Interaction -- 4. When Background is Foregrounded - Nationality and 'Ways of Life' -- 5. Do You Understand? The Issue of Language -- 6. Liquor, Pork and Scarfs - The Issue of Religion -- 7. Gatekeeping - The Power of Categories -- 8. Interactional Pitfalls and Pointers -- Appendix 1: Legal Extracts -- Appendix 2: Transcription Notations -- Appendix 3: Overview of Data -- Appendix 4: Distribution of Cases Across Interviews -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index