Arbetsmigration och flerspråkig interaktion på byggarbetsplatser
Work migration and multilingual interaction at construction sites
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Arbetskraftspendlingen inom EU är särskilt stor inom byggsektorn med språkliga effekter både för den som söker arbete utomlands och för platsen för mottagandet. I den här artikeln analyseras kedjor av arbetsdirektiv på två byggarbetsplatser i Sverige där det arbetar svenska, polska respektive ukrainska hantverkare. Vi visar hur kedjorna bidrar till en organisation där alla inte behöver tala med alla och beskriver hur lagbasar för utländska team av arbetare får en nyckelroll genom dels sin flerspråkighet, dels kedjeformatet. Materialet består av etnografiska observationer och videoinspelade samtal från två flerspråkiga arbetsplatser av olika storlek, vilket möjliggör jämförelser av hur arbetet organiseras. I artikeln analyseras först enskilda kedjor med hjälp av samtalsanalys, sedan den övergripande institutionella ordning för språkval som framträder när mönstret återkommer över tid och rum. Intressant nog är den institutionella ordningen för språkval lika för byggarbetsplatserna, trots olikheter i storlek, temporalitet och spatialitet.
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Labour mobility within the EU is particularly extensive in the construction sector, with sociolinguistic consequences for those working abroad and for the place of reception. In this article we analyze chains of directives at construction sites in Sweden, where Ukrainian, Polish and Swedish craftsmen work. The data consist of ethnographic observations and video-recorded conversations from two multilingual workplaces of different sizes. Conversation analysis is used for the analysis of particular instances of chains, and our observations allow for the discussion of the main characteristics of an institutional order for language choice based on interactional patterns that recur across time and space. The results demonstrate how chains contribute to an organization in which not everyone needs to talk to everyone else and where multilingual team leaders function as language brokers between project managers and workers. Interestingly, the institutional order of language choice is similar at the two workplaces, notwithstanding differences in size, temporality and spatiality.
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