Personal names and migration

An overview

Abstract

This paper seeks to offer a broad examination of themes related to personal names within the context of migration. It gives a survey of how language contact effects the name form and reviews various socio-onomastic perspectives, including name choice and multilingual identity, name changes and social belonging, names in multilingual interaction, as well as legal considerations surrounding foreign names in contemporary societies. For a thorough perspective, this overview includes research pertaining to both present-day and historical situations.