Mi-Cha Flubacher is a post doc assistant in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. In her doctorate thesis in sociolinguistics (University of Bern, Switzerland), she analyzed discourses on integration and their focus on language in Switzerland from a critical Foucauldian perspective. Post-PhD, she was a researcher at the Institute for Multilingualism, University of Fribourg, in projects on questions of multilingual practices and their consequences, particularly in the context of the workplace and in unemployment. Her research interests include ethnographic approaches to the economic commodification of language and multilingualism, to language as a site of the reproduction of social inequality, and to questions of language, gender, and race/ethnicity. Shirley Yeung is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She has an enduring interest in looking at how language mediates processes of cross-border mobility. She has conducted collaborative research on Philippine migration and life history narratives in Toronto, Canada, and her current project ethnographically examines how policies and practices of cultural-linguistic integration are mediated on the terrain of migrant education in Geneva, Switzerland. Areas of related research interest include concepts and practices of cross-cultural communication in therapy; the ethical entailments of language; undocumented mobilities; and the semiotic construction of diversity and difference in relation to border-making, political economy, ideologies of language and culture.
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