This volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges of transition into a (new) workplace, team or community, as well as transitions within different professional communities.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating boundaries at work, Jo Angouri, Meredith Marra & Janet Holmes Part I: Transitions to a profession; Chapter 2: Negotiating social legitimacy in and across contexts: Apprenticeship in a'dual'training system, Stefano A. Losa & Laurent Filliettaz; Chapter 3: Language mentoring and employment ideologies: Internationally educated professionals in search of work, Julie Kerekes; Chapter 4: Oh it's a DANISH boyfriend you've got- Co-membership and cultural fluency in job interviews with minority background applicants in Denmark, Marta Kirilova; Chapter 5: Constructing a'mission statement-A multimodal perspective on believable identity construction in a job interview, Ewa Kusmierczyk-O'Connor; Chapter 6: Teamwork and the 'global graduate': Negotiating core skills and competencies with employers in recruitment interviews, Sophie Reissner-Roubicek; Chapter 7: Doing evaluation'in the modern workplace: Negotiating the identity of'model employee'in performance appraisal interviews, Dorien Van De Mieroop & Stephanie Schnurr; Part II: Transitions within a profession; Chapter 8: Multilingualism and work experience in Germany: On the pragmatic notion of'patiency' Kristin Buhrig & Jochen Rehbein; Chapter 9: Working and learning in a new niche: Ecological interpretations of work-related migration, Minna Suni; Chapter 10: Have you still not learnt Luxembourgish? Negotiating language boundaries in a distribution company in Luxembourg, Anne Franziskus; Chapter 11:The'internationalised'academic: Negotiating boundaries between the local, the regional and the'international'at the university, Anne H. Fabricius; Chapter 12: Collaborating beyond disciplinary boundaries, Seongsook Choi

Focuses on the urban workplace environment and workforce mobility. Contributors approach transitions from a number of perspectives representing the range of work currently being undertaken in the area. A range of cases are discussed in each chapter.