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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Socio-Cultural Attitudes to Migration and the Academic Disposition of Migration Studies -- PART I: EUROPE -- 2 Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls -- 3 Economic Migrant or Hyphenated British? Writing About Difference in London's East End -- 4 Outsourcing and Migrational Anxieties in Discourse Perspectives -- 5 Economic Satisfaction and Nostalgic Laments: The Language of Bulgarian Economic Migrants After 1989 in Websites and Electronic Fora -- 6 The Immigrating Russian: The Bulgarian Case -- PART II: AFRICA -- 7 The Transformative Effect of Transfer Originating from Migration on Local Moroccan Socio-Economic Dynamics -- 8 'Economic Martyrs': Two Perspectives on 'Lahrig' -- 9 The Cultural Consequence of Economic Migration from Nigeria to the West -- 10 From Homeland to Hopeland? Economic Globalization and Ogoni Migration in the 1990s -- 11 Migrancy and Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance -- PART III: ASIA -- 12 Emigration and Sociocultural Change in Iran -- 13 Imaginary Migrations in Contemporary Chinese Public Culture -- 14 Media Representations in India of the Indian Diaspora in UK and US -- 15 Globalizing Hinduism, Hinduizing India: The Paradoxical Purposes of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad -- 16 Negotiating the Shifting Boundaries of Nativeness and Modernity in Immigrant South Asian Women's Clothes

The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved Joshua A. Fishman, often cited in the literature as one of the founders of the Sociology of Language. Tope Omoniyi brings to the collaboration an insightful and incisive critical eye for engaging with diversity in the treatment of language and religion. Together as editors they have successfully midwived the birth of SLR. The studies and debates contained in this volume revisit those themes that both of the contributory disciplines of Sociology of Language and Religion have common interest in. The contributing authors explore new methodologies and paradigms of analysis that they deem appropriate for this interesting and complex interface in an attempt to demonstrate how the shared interests of these disciplines impact social practices in various communities around the world. The ultimate objective of the discussions is to fashion tools for creating a body of new knowledge that supports the emergence of a better society. Towards this end, the authors have harnessed resources from varied geographical, cultural, linguistic and religious constituencies without compromising analytical depth. In the process, they have opened up new areas of sociolinguistic inquiry. The volume is thus presented as a highly useful reference resource both for undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship.