Linguistic Vulnerability and

Language Learning in the Peripheries

Case Study 4: Multilingual Ecologies in the American Southwest Borderlands

Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona

An invisible border can be a barrier all the same.

Borders make worlds

“local possibilities and limitations”

(Blommaert, Collins, & Slembrouck, 2005)

Access Restrictions

Genre Trouble

Affect Aliens

Further Questions How might vulnerability, in the ways

described, factor into our understanding of multilingual research practices and researcher professional development?

How might vulnerability as a principle inform multilingual advocacy, in particular contexts of higher education out of which researchers are born?