ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the processes of the self-conceptualization of identity among first-generation Chilean migrants in Sydney. Sydney is a city known not just as the home of the largest number of Chilean migrants in the Southern hemisphere outside of Latin America but one whose urban realities are highly decentered. The chapter addresses Sydney as a global city, we profile the place of Spanish in relation to English and other languages in the city. It highlights the engagement with the sociolinguistics of globalization that informs the other contributions in this book, in order to establish critical definitions of the theoretical perspectives that underlie the approach. The chapter draws on a variety of theoretical developments in the areas of migration studies and Dialogical Self Theory to make the argument about the ways in which particular language terms and distinctions generate social and identity positions among Chileans.
