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Transcaucasian boundaries"" provides the first insights into the geopolitical dynamics in this ethnically diverse and turbulent region of the former Soviet Union. The interplay between the former controlling powers of Iran, Turkey and Russia is examined, and the conflicts in Nagorno-Karabagh, Ossetia and Abkhazia are subject to expert analysis. The roles of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia are considered in detail, their relative weakness having held back the transition towards democratic free-market entities of pluralist composition. Questions of minority rights, territorial settlement and the

Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- Nation, Migration and Kinship through Identity Categorization -- Introduction -- The Strain of Categorization and the Proliferation of Boundaries -- Embodied Nationality: Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities -- Book Overview -- Bibliography -- The Perils of Reification: Identity Categories and Identity Construction in Migration Research -- Introduction -- Ethnicity -- On Groupism -- Pitfalls of Focusing Migrant Studies on Ethnic Groups -- Ancestry and the Problem of Multiple Origins -- The Invention of the Hispanics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Building the Nation through Frontiers and Classifications -- The Uninvited Migrant, the 'Autochtoon' and the 'Allochtoon' in the Netherlands -- Introduction -- The 'Others' in the Netherlands -- The Netherlands as a Country of Immigration -- Categories of Native and Foreign -- Populist Discourse and the Allochtoon -- Effects of European Integration -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Politics of Racial Disproportionality of the Child Welfare System in New York -- Introduction -- Methodology -- How and Why the Significance of Race Emerged in the History of Child Welfare -- Technologies of Truth and the Re-appropriation of Statistics -- Difficult Conversations -- Problems of Representation: Poverty and Race -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Childbirth on Europe's Ultra-Periphery: Maternity Care, French Universalism and Equivocal Identities on the Maroni River, French Guiana -- Introduction -- Contextualizing Healthcare on the Maroni River -- Caring and Civilizing: Maternity Care on the Upper Maroni -- Caring and Controlling: Childbirth and National Identity on the Lower Maroni -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Migrant Incorporation in South Tyrol and Essentialized Local Identities -- Introduction -- Essentialized Identities in the Local Context

Language across Boundaries is a selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The thirteen papers are written by applied linguists, from Britain, mainland Europe, the USA, Australia and Singapore, working in a variety of sub-disciplines of the field. The 'boundaries' of the title have been widely interpreted and the book reflects a spectrum of research, ranging from work on the linguistic repercussions of individual and group identity boundaries to work dealing with ways of crossing national and cultural boundaries through language learni