Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the role of migration in transforming linguistic practices, ideologies, and identities in different national, economic, and socio-political contexts, makes a contribution to sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropology research. It examines the way in which non-Jewish Latinos in Israel understand education, polite interactional personhood, as a diasporic group characteristic. The book shows how the availability and general accessibility of information communication technologies, coupled with the pace of technological development from telephones to ubiquitous wireless Internet and mobile phone coverage. It discusses the relationship between the values conferred to the different language varieties and linguistic ideologies. The book highlights how linguistic ideologies from a Latin American background remain active in the diaspora despite being delocalized and relocalized in new social contexts.