2009
DOI: 10.1515/shll-2009-1048
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Performing Bilingualism: An Ethnographic Analysis of Discourse Practices at a Day Labor Center in the Southwest

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“…Many Mexican migrants navigate dual, often dueling, languages and the challenges presented by deficient English skills, as also noted by DuBord (2008DuBord ( , 2010. In many cases they must also manage imbalances between securing employment and lack of adequate transportation and other perceived essential resources that most traditional or mainstream workers would have access to.…”
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confidence: 86%
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“…Many Mexican migrants navigate dual, often dueling, languages and the challenges presented by deficient English skills, as also noted by DuBord (2008DuBord ( , 2010. In many cases they must also manage imbalances between securing employment and lack of adequate transportation and other perceived essential resources that most traditional or mainstream workers would have access to.…”
Section: Martinmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…In her excellent ethnographic study, DuBord (2008DuBord ( , 2010, for example, examines linguistic strategies and bilingual/monolingual techniques used by employers to emphasize the power differential between themselves and day laborers. Similarly, DuBord explores techniques used by laborers in negotiations to secure employment in day labor networks and explains how this very unique type of worker cultivates relations with other workers and with employers, where 'building rapport between employers and workers is achieved through a complicated overlay of accommodation and co-membership ' (2010, p. 207).…”
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