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Scopus Author ID: 36622769900

Keywords

Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, Political economy, Language policy, Language and Identity, Language and social interaction

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United Kingdom

Biography

I am interested in issues concerned with language, interaction, social identity, institutions, and political economy, with a strong focus on understanding how inequality operates across different social fields. My past research projects involved the ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of language and cultural ideologies through discursive practices in institutional spaces in London, Madrid, Mainland China and Hong Kong vis-à-vis wider national and international policies shaped by: a) mobility and migration; b) shifting politics of national identity; c) activism; and d) educational neoliberalisation. Currently, I am exploring trajectories of young professionals in the making as they move from higher education into the labor market. I am Co-Editor of Journal of Language, Culture and Society (John Benjamins) and Language Policy journal (Springer). I also serve as Co-President of EDiSo Association for Studies in Discourse and Society.

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Employment (5)

University College London Institute of Education: London, London, GB

2016-01-01 to present | Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics (Culture, Communication and Media)
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University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2016-01-01 to 2017-12-31 | Honorary Associate Professor (English Language Education)
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University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2012-09-01 to 2015-12-31 | Assistant Professor (Faculty of Education)
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University of Hong Kong: Hong Kong, HK

2011-09-01 to 2012-08-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Faculty of Education)
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King's College London: London, London, GB

2010-09-01 to 2011-08-31 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Education and Professional Studies)
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Education and qualifications (5)

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2004-09-01 to 2009-12-22 | PhD in Applied Linguistics (Linguistics and Modern Languages)
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2002-09-01 to 2004-07-01 | MA in Applied Linguistics (Linguistics and Modern Languages)
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2002-09-01 to 2003-07-01 | Postgraduate Diploma in Chinese Language and Culture (Linguistics and Modern Languages)
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Madrid, Madrid, ES

2000-09-01 to 2002-07-01 | BA in General Linguistics (Linguistics and Modern Languages)
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ES

1997-09-30 to 2000-07-01 | BA in Education (Faculty of Education)
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Professional activities (8)

Language Policy journal (Springer): New York, US

2020-01-01 to present | Co-Editor in Chief
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Journal of Language Culture and Society (John Benjamins): Amsterdam , NL

2019-01-01 to present | Co-Editor
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EDiSo Association for the Study of Discourse and Society: Madrid, ES

2019-07-01 to 2023-06-30 | Vice-President
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British Association for Applied Linguistics: BAAL, GB

2019-09-01 | 2019 BAAL Book Prize
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University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland, AU

2019-08-01 to 2019-08-31 | Distinguished Visiting Professor (The School of Languages and Cultures)
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University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland, AU

2019-08-01 | Distinguished Visiting Professor (The School of Languages and Cultures)
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Nanjing Tech University: Nanjing, CN

2017-05-01 to 2017-12-31 | Visiting Scholar (Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics)
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Guangdong University of Foreign Studies: Guangzhou, CN

2016-11-01 to 2016-11-30 | Visiting Scholar (School of English)
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Funding (15)

Becoming a professional in the new global market: Language, mobility and inequality among youth

2017 to 2018 | Grant
UCL Global Fund + UCL IOE Seed corn grant + Beijing University of International Business and Economics + Nanjing Technological University (London; Beijing; Nanjing, GB)
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Writing in the city

2017 to 2018 | Grant
University College London & The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong; London, HK)
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Miguel Pérez Milans

The appropriation of English as a global language in Castilla-La Mancha schools: A multilingual, situated and comparative approach

2015-09 to 2017-08 | Grant
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Madrid , ES)
GRANT_NUMBER:

FFI2014-54179-C2-2-P
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Language Mobility and Learning: Trajectories of South Asian Youth in Hong Kong

2015-09 to 2016-01 | Grant
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee, Hong Kong (Hong Kong , HK)
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Miguel Pérez Milans

Migration, social class and language education in Hong Kong: The case of Mainland cross-border and South Asian youth

2015 to 2017 | Grant
Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR), Hong Kong Education Bureau (Hong Kong, HK)
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Miguel Pérez Milans

Ideological Shifts in the Provision of Language Education: English and Working-Class Ethnic Minority Youngsters in Hong Kong

2014-04 to 2016-03 | Grant
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong , HK)
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Miguel Pérez Milans

Superdiversity, multilingualism and the translocalization of higher education: Network trajectories of students in Madrid and Hong Kong

2013-07 to 2014-12 | Grant
Fundación Banco Santander (Madrid , ES)
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Chinese and English as Languages of the Wider World: a Sociolinguistic Study on Second Language Education and Youth’s Interests in London, Madrid, and Hong Kong

2011-05 to 2012-04 | Grant
Fundación Banco Santander (Madrid , ES)
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Miguel Pérez Milans

English Language Education, Identity and Interaction in Contemporary China: Doing Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography in the Guangdong-Hong Kong border area

2010-09 to 2012-08 | Award
Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (Madrid, ES)
GRANT_NUMBER:

EX2009-0959
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Construction of school interethnic relations in the context of national and linguistic policies

2006-09 to 2007-09 | Grant
Consejería de Educación, Juventud y Deporte, Comunidad de Madrid (Madrid , ES)
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Intercultural communication and social integration in the context of national and linguistic policies

2005-09 to 2006-09 | Grant
Consejería de Educación, Juventud y Deporte, Comunidad de Madrid (Madrid, ES)
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Miguel Pérez Milans

Integrated reference corpora for spoken romance languages multimedia edition; tools for analysis; standard linguistic measures for validation in HLT – C-Oral-ROM

2003-09 to 2004-03 | Grant
European Research Council (Brussels , BE)
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IST-2000-26228
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Socio-pragmatic analysis of the intercultural communication in educational practices: towards social integration in the classroom

2003-05 to 2006-04 | Contract
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Madrid, Madrid, ES)
GRANT_NUMBER:

BFF 2003‐04830
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Integrating immigrants into their new societies: Implications for psychological adjustment, family functioning and labour force participation across five European Nations

2002 to 2005 | Grant
British Academy (London, London, GB)
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Cultural and linguistic diversity: A proposal of strategies for education

2000 to 2003 | Grant
Consejería de Educación, Juventud y Deporte, Comunidad de Madrid (Madrid , ES)
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06/0122/2000
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Re-imagining Language and Communication in Collaborative Projects: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Future

2025-06-30 | Book
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ISBN: 9781032481364
Contributors: Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà; Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Religion, social memory and future re-imagination: Utopian narratives through ethnographic lens

2025-06-30 | Book chapter
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2044471

Part of ISBN: 9781032481364
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Xiaoyan Guo (Grace); Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà
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University College London

The politics of future re-imagination: Sociolinguistic approaches

2025-06-30 | Book chapter
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2084968

Part of ISBN: 9781032481364
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Maria Rosa Garrido; Maria Rosa Garrido
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University College London

English and academic publishing: Capitalist endeavours, colonial entanglements and knowledge production

2025-02-03 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003413066-13
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Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Kathrin Kaufhold; Josep Soler; Josep Soler; Kathrin Kaufhold
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University College London

Philanthrocapitalism and the languaging of empowered women in the Global South

Multilingua
2024-11-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/multi-2024-0137
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2339194

Part of ISSN: 0167-8507
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WOS:001363176400001
Contributors: Sudha Athipet Vepa; Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Discursive Spaces of Identity

2024-10-17 | Book chapter
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2092837

Part of ISBN: 9781350293540
Contributors: L Atanga; M Moyer; Miguel Pérez Milans; S Pillai; A Salonga; M Flubacher; A Del Percio
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Acceleration, capitalist temporalities and collective challenges in academic publishing [Language Policy]

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
2024-09-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2024-0080
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2325172

Part of ISSN: 0165-2516
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WOS:001386366000009
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Kate Menken
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University College London

Language ideology in education

2023-12-30 | Book chapter
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2044034
Contributors: James W Tollefson; Miguel Pérez Milans; Carol Chapelle
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University College London

(Un)doing regimentation in reflexive practices: on-site processes of sociolinguistic differentiation – a commentary

Multilingua
2023-09-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/multi-2023-0112
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2083943

Part of ISSN: 0167-8507
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Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Institutional Discourse

2023-08-30 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003082637_9
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2044031

Part of ISBN: 9780367536244
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WOS:001146485100009
Contributors: Zsófia Demjén; Miguel Pérez Milans; Li Wei; Zhu Hua; James Simpson
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University College London

Working papers for a more open academy

2023-08-20 | Working paper
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2081722
Contributors: Ben Rampton; Rodrigo Borba; Constadina Charalambous; Mel Cooke; Zannie Bock; Miguel Pérez Milans
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Glotopolítica y sociolingüística crÍtica: Conversación con Daniela Lauria y Miguel Pérez-Milans (podcast by Journal of Sociolinguistics)

2023-07-14 | Interactive resource
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Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans
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EELC9 Conference Programme

2023-03-28 | Interactive resource
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2013371
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Emma Brooks; Andrea Sunyol
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University College London

Pressing times, losing voice: critique and transformative spaces in higher education

London Review of Education
2022 | Journal article
DOI: 10.14324/LRE.20.1.30
Contributors: Ahmad Jaber Benswait; Miguel Pérez-Milans
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Afterword – the promise of CLIL. Discourse, practices and selves

Global CLIL
2022-12-30 | Book chapter | Author
DOI: 10.4324/9781003147374-12
Part of ISBN: 9781003147374
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Editorial - Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Language, Culture and Society
2022-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/lcs.00035.edi
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2084916

Part of ISSN: 2543-3164
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Alfonso Del Percio; Patricia Baquedano-López; Cecile Vigouroux
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University College London

Editorial - Language, epistemology, and the politics of knowledge production

Language, Culture and Society
2022-01-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/lcs.3.2
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2084914
Contributors: Vigouroux Cecile; Alfonso Del Percio; Miguel Pérez Milans; Patricia Baquedano-López
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University College London

Futures, imagined cities and emerging markets: the semiotic production of professional selves

Social Semiotics
2021-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2020.1810546
Contributors: Miguel Pérez-Milans
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Hoping for success, becoming a spiritual subject

Language, Culture and Society
2020-12-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/lcs.20001.per
Contributors: Miguel Pérez-Milans; Guo (Grace) Xiaoyan
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Lengua y superdiversidad

2020-12-04 | Book chapter
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1834380

Part of ISBN: 978-84-9180-813-8
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Luisa Martin Rojo; Joan Pujolar
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University College London

Language Planning

2020-11-01 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1002/9781118786093.iela0218
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1643803

Part of ISBN: 9781118786765
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; J Stanlaw
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2019-2022 EDiSo Presidency, Asociación de Estudios sobre Discurso y Sociedad (EDiSo)

Journal for Discourse Studies (Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung)
2020-03-02 | Journal article
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2084960
Contributors: Eva Codó; Miguel Pérez Milans
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Editorial

Language Policy
2020-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-020-09544-2
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73181

Part of ISSN: 1568-4555
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WOS:000519372300001
Contributors: Kate Menken; Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Transnational trajectories of multilingual workers: emerging geographies and spatialising practices of mutant sovereignty

International Journal of Multilingualism
2020-01-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2020.1682266
Contributors: Miguel Pérez-Milans
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Language, Culture and Society

Language, Culture and Society
2019-04-15 | Journal issue or edition
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1639569

Part of ISSN: 2543-3164
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Language, Culture and Society - Editorial

Language, Culture and Society
2019-04-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/lcs.00001.edi
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1645358

Part of ISSN: 2543-3164
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Patricia Baquedano-López; Alfonso Del Percio; Cécile Vigouroux; Li Wei
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Structures of feeling in language policy: the case of Tibetan in China

Language Policy
2019-02-15 | Journal article
DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10993-018-9469-3
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Language, neoliberalism, and the commodification of pedagogy

Language and Intercultural Communication
2018-09-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2018.1501844
Contributors: Carlos Soto; Miguel Pérez-Milans
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Changing urban designs, tapping new markets: The discursive production of professionalism in the new global cities

2018-05-01 | Working paper
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Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Language Policy and Planning: Directions for Future Research

2018-05-01 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190458898.013.36
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Part of ISBN: 9780190458898
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; J W Tollefson; J W Tollefson
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University College London

Metapragmatics in the ethnography of language policy

2018-05-01 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190458898.013.7
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Part of ISBN: 9780190458898
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; J W Tollefson
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University College London

Research and practice in language policy and planning

2018-05-01 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190458898.013.1
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Part of ISBN: 9780190458898
Contributors: J W Tollefson; Miguel Pérez Milans; J W Tollefson
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University College London

The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning

2018-05-01 | Book
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ISBN: 9780190458898
Contributors: J W Tollefson; Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Bilingual education in Hong Kong

2017 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02258-1_17
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Part of ISBN: 978-3-319-02257-4
Contributors: M Perez Milans; O Garcia; A Lin
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University College London

Light communities?: Implications for research on diversity & activism.

2017-08-01 | Working paper
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Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Carlos Soto
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University College London

LIAN MALAI MADSEN. Fighters, Girls and Other Identities: Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club

Journal of Sociolinguistics
2017-02-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/josl.12219
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Reflexive language and ethnic minority activism in Hong Kong

AILA Review
2017-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: doi 10.1075/aila.29.03per
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Reflexivity and Social Change in Applied Linguistics

AILA Review
2017-02-01 | Journal issue or edition
DOI: doi 10.1075/aila.29.01per
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Reflexivity in Late Modernity: Accounts from linguistic ethnographies of youth

AILA Review
2017-02-01 | Journal issue or edition
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Part of ISSN: 1570-5595
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Language and identity in linguistic ethnography

2016 | Book chapter
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Part of ISBN: 9781138774728
Contributors: M Perez Milans; Sian Preece
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University College London

Reflexiones sobre ‘Occupy. The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements’ de Luisa Martin Rojo

Discurso & Sociedad
2016-12 | Journal article
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1199909

Part of ISSN: 1887-4606
Contributors: O García Agustín; L Martín Rojo; J Pujolar Cos; Miguel Pérez Milans; A Moustaoui Srhir; E Hidalgo McCabe; C Cárdenas Neira; S Martínez Guillem
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‘I’m already standing up for our rights’: Reflexive discourse and minority- based activism in the trajectory of an adolescent in Hong Kong.

2016-02-01 | Working paper
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Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans; Carlos Soto
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Language education policy in late modernity: (socio) linguistic ethnographies in the European Union

Language Policy
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-014-9354-7
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Mandarin Chinese in London education: language aspirations in a working-class secondary school

Language Policy
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-014-9345-8
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We don’t do anything: analysing the construction of legitimate knowledge in multilingual schools

Pedagogies
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/1554480X.2015.1043304
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Contributors: Patiño-Santos, A.; Pérez-Milans, M.; Relaño-Pastor, A.M.
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Language Education Policy in Late Modernity: Insights from Situated Approaches

Language policy
2015-05 | Journal issue or edition
ISSN: 1573-1863
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Language Education Policy in Late Modernity: Insights from Situated Approaches

Language Policy
2015-01-15 | Journal issue or edition
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Part of ISSN: 1568-4555
Contributors: Miguel Pérez Milans
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University College London

Language education and institutional change in a Madrid multilingual school

International Journal of Multilingualism
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2014.944532
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Contributors: Pérez-Milans, M.; Patiño-Santos, A.
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Multilingual Discursive Practices and Processes of Social Change in Globalising Institutional Spaces: A Critical Ethnographic Perspective Special Issue

2014 | Journal article
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Multilingual discursive practices and processes of social change in globalizing institutional spaces

International Journal of Multilingualism
2014 | Journal issue or edition
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2014.944528
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