Abstract
All of us – nomads, immigrants, refugees, students, company executives, academics, and farmers – are in flow, in motion, and on the move. This is true even if physically we stay put. If “immobility is not a realistic option in a world of permanent change,” as (Zygmunt Bauman. Globalization. Columbia University Press, New York, p 2, 1998) puts it, being totally local, which is virtually impossible, then is a sign of social deprivation. Therefore, flow, immigration, emigration, movement, displacement, and globalization, it seems, especially post-Internet, are the intractable fate of the world (Appiah Cosmopolitanism. Ethics in a world of strangers. W. W. Norton, New York, 2006). This intractable fate, however, on the one hand, seems to magnify the wealth of a few and worsens the world’s majority and with the power of the globalized meaning-making machines (media, Internet, popular culture, etc.) and time/space compression; on the other, this situation is as much a threat to the local as it is a space for future hope and possibilities for wide-awakeness Rautins and Ibrahim (Int J Crit Pedagog 3(2):24–36, 2011). Building on these contentions, this chapter argues that it is in this space of tension between threat and hope that our discussion on immigration, cultural flows, hybridity, and language awareness should be situated.
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Ibrahim, A. (2015). Immigration/Flow, Hybridity, and Language Awareness. In: Cenoz, J., Gorter, D., May, S. (eds) Language Awareness and Multilingualism. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02325-0_23-1
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