Belonging in Translation

Reiko Shindo is Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Humanities at Coventry University. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on citizenship and community and cuts across various fields of studies including political geography, migration studies, political theory, and Japanese studies.

''Shindo turns assumptions about misinterpretation, inaudibility and untranslatability on their head as she explores the possibilities of communication and its failure. An important and pioneering contribution to Citizenship and Migration Studies, which – until now – has lacked a robust theorisation of linguistic diversity.'' Anne McNevin, The New School

• Introduction1.Language as a Contested Site of Belonging2.Solidarity Activism? Rethinking Citizenship Through Inaudibility3.Silence and the Image of Helplessness: The Challenge of Tozen Union4.Rewriting the Meaning of Silence: Latin American Migrant Workers from Kanagawa City Union5.The Hidden Space of Mediation: Migrant Volunteers, Immigration Lawyers, and Interpreters6.Untranslatable Community: Toward a Gothic Way of SpeakingConclusion