Abstract
Using ethnographic evidence from asylum hearings in various European countries, this article discusses John Gumperz's legacy in the study of late‐modern communication. Asylum hearings to determine refugee status are one of the most complex adjudication procedures currently performed by Western nation‐states. Every year thousands of displaced people seek the protection of various European states by filing asylum claims, which are examined by national commissions. This article explores how Gumperz's focus on code‐switching and crosstalk in multilingual communities has prepared the ground for the study of the transidioma, that is, the ensemble of asymmetrical technopolitical discourse strategies deployed over a multilingual, mixed‐media interactional field—such as is found in asylum hearings.
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