ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between different migration trajectories and identities and linguistic repertoires and resources. It considers the types of migration trajectories, namely, return migration, circular migration, rural-urban migration, peri-urban, south-north, north-south, south-south, north-north, chain migration, and step migration. The chapter explores how these migration trajectories impact identities and language proficiencies. It discusses the impact of migration trajectories on migrants' linguistic repertoires and identities in the host destination. The chapter argues that regardless of the category of migration trajectory involved, each migration trajectory has an impact, though to varying degrees, on migrants' social identities and proficiency in both the migrant community language as well as the language of the host community. It concludes with a discussion of new challenges and directions in the study of migration trajectories and their broader socio-linguistic implications in the age of superdiversity.
