In this chapter, we analyze communicative practices on social media by young African men who arrived in Sicily as Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers. We present a case study centered on the Facebook walls of two young men from Guinea in order to illustrate these communicative processes. We will show how these youth orient to different linguistic and cultural centers and how their identity and experiences as translocal, mobile, people shape their communicative practices.
De Fina, A., Paternostro, G. (2026). Migrants' Communicative Practices in Polycentric Spaces: Anomie, Stability and Change. In K. Arnaut, I. Maly, D. Parkin, M. Spotti (a cura di), Power, Mobility and Voice. Jan Blommaert's Unfinished Business (pp. 173-192). Bristol : Multilingual Matters.
Migrants' Communicative Practices in Polycentric Spaces: Anomie, Stability and Change
Paternostro, G
2026-01-01
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In this chapter, we analyze communicative practices on social media by young African men who arrived in Sicily as Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers. We present a case study centered on the Facebook walls of two young men from Guinea in order to illustrate these communicative processes. We will show how these youth orient to different linguistic and cultural centers and how their identity and experiences as translocal, mobile, people shape their communicative practices.
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