Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: scale, migration and communicative practice -- PART I: Scale and Multilingualism -- 2 Goffman and globalization: frame, footing and scale in migration-connected multilingualism -- 3 Space, scale and accents: constructing migrant identity in Beijing -- 4 A relational understanding of language practice: interacting timespaces in a single ethnographic site -- 5 Immigration in Catalonia: marking territory through language -- PART II: Spatialization, Migration and Identity -- 6 From space to spatialization in narrative studies -- 7 'Just one day like today': scale and the analysis of space/time orientation in narratives of displacement -- 8 Transnational flows, networks and 'transcultural capital': reflections on researching migrant networks through linguistic ethnography -- 9 'Either' and 'Both' - the changing concept of living space among Polish post-communist migrants to the United Kingdom -- 10 The spaces of language: the everyday practices of young Somali refugees and asylum seekers -- PART III: Studying Processes and Practices across Time and Space -- 11 'Canada meets France': recasting identities of Canadianness and Francité through global economic exchanges -- 12 Changing participation in changing practice: uses of language and literacy among Portuguese migrant women in the United Kingdom -- 13 Weighing the scales: recontextualization as horizontal scaling -- Index of authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.