ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an account of insights emerging from sociolinguistic research in progress with young men and women from the South East Asian nation of Timor-Leste who are currently living and working in Northern Ireland, in the towns of Dungannon, Cookstown, and Portadown, in County Tyrone. It focuses on the spaces of conviviality that they are creating within their local life worlds, but in the broader project we are also taking stock of their lived experience of day to day social life in the small town settings. The chapter includes the ways in which they are positioned within the workplaces, depending on the language resources and funds of knowledge available to them. It aims to make a contribution to the new sociolinguistics of multilingualism and mobility, focusing in on one particular transnational population movement from the global south to the north and west. The population of Timor-Leste has been linguistically and culturally diverse ever since pre-colonial times.
