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Del Percio, Alfonso. 2018. Engineering commodifiable workers: language, migration and the governmentality of the self. Language Policy 17 (2) : 239–259. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Springer
Annotation
This paper explores the strategies and forms of expertise on language and communication mobilized to build commodifiable migrant workers. It uses an ethnographic account of counselling practices in a state-run Italian job guidance centre for freshly arrived migrants.