Immigration and Bureaucratic Control 53 These presentations were complemented by

These presentations were complemented by invited lectures from Stephen Feiner and Ron Azuma

ehe sich die Gesamtheit der Bevölkerung zu einem entscheidenden Schritt gegen Repression und Unterdrückung

machen nicht vor Städten und Gemeinden halt

die im Ausmaß etwas mehr als 1/3 der Staatsexamensarbeit ausmachen

trotz jahrelanger Destabilisierung

Immigration and Bureaucratic Control 53 These presentations were complemented byThis original study looks at language practices in a government agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to transnational migrants in Spain. Drawing on a unique corpus of naturally occurring verbal interactions between state officials and migrant petitioners as well as ethnographic materials and interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion. The