Language Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important retheorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people language and literacy in relation to social practice the role and nature of boundary maintenance or disruption in global transnational and translocal contexts and the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global transnational and translocal processes. The contributors pay attention to the dynamics of multilingualism in located settings and the social and personal management of multilingualism in socially stratified and ethnically plural social settings. Together they offer groundbreaking research on language practices and documentary practices as regards to access selection social mobility and gatekeeping processes in a range of settings across several continents Africa Asia the Americas and Europe.