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Research in the field of international migration engage a multilingual frame. Multilingualism raises a question of knowledge and meaning transferability in diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. Migration studies focusing on the transnational settings require a reflective use of languages while confronting methodological challenges at all research stages. This notion is especially valid in the case of qualitative research oriented to capturing meaning which can be lost in translation. As the first objective, in this article I reflect on language use in the research conduct in general and in migration studies in particular. I address a set of methodological challenges connected to multilingualism during data gathering, processing, and interpretation. The second objective is to approach translanguaging as one of the features of multilingual practices and as an epiphenomenon of immigration and transnationalism. I rely on a research project on immigrant agency of immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU), arriving in Germany between 1990-2005. I exemplify how multilingualism can be utilized in empirical research, and how translanguaging helps to understand cross-cultural experiences.

Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, Rosanna Hertz and Margaret K. Nelson (2019) 1st ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 296 pp., ISBN 978-0-19088-827-5, h/bk, $27.95; ISBN 978-0-19088-829-9, e/bk, $17.00
Connecting Families? Information & Communication Technologies, Generations, and the Life Course, Barbara Barbosa Neves and Cláudia Casimiro (eds) (2018) Bristol: Policy Press, 324 pp., ISBN 978-1-44733-994-6, h/bk, £60

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Articulating Dissent: Protest and the Public Sphere, Pollyanna Ruiz (2014) 1st ed., London: Pluto Press, 232 pp., ISBN: 9780745333052, p/bk, £17.50
Talking Dirty on Sex and the City: Romance, Intimacy, Friendship, Beatriz Oria (2014) 1st ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 214 pp., ISBN: 9781442235809, h/bk, £44.95/$75.00, ISBN: 9781442235816, e-Book, £44.95/$74.99
Climate Change in the Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty, James Painter (2013) 1st ed., London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 128 pp., ISBN: 9781780765884, p/bk, £12.99

The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues of the history and present of this globally connected diaspora group from an interdisciplinary angle.