Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts (Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language). This item is unavailable.Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts (Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language)

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration, social integration, and language learning experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees, from India and Sri Lanka to Montréal, Québec, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Sonia N. Das is Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Michigan and B.A. in Anthropology and B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, taught at a high school in Louisiana, and has published in top anthropology journals in French and English.