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Direct linkRobert Hanks; Mark Turin; H. Henny Yeung – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Many newcomers to Canada experience significant difficulties adjusting to life in their new community, with few more challenging than learning English. While Canada's Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program suggests a pathway to social integration, ideologies pertaining to language and diversity that inform the LINC program can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Yagmur, Kutlay – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
European discourse on linguistic minorities reflect the construction of inter-ethnic boundaries between national (such as Dutch or French), indigenous minorities (such as Basque, Catalan or Frisian), and immigrant minorities (Arabic, Berber or Turkish). In the European public discourse on immigrant minority groups, two major characteristics…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants, Minority Groups
Flubacher, Mi-Cha; Yeung, Shirley – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
In this introduction, we outline the most relevant concepts for this special issue on integration and the politics of difference. This introduction characterizes "integration" as a dominant policy orientation and discursive regime concerned primarily with understandings of language, communication, and skill which constitute a…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Politics, Multilingualism, Social Integration
Yeung, Shirley – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
This article examines two social categories brought into being by recent migration policies in Switzerland: the expatriate (or "expat") and the migrant. Treating these categories as relationally constituted, the article explores how this distinction was constructed and managed in response to processes of European harmonization in the…
Descriptors: Classification, Immigrants, Social Integration, Public Policy
Allan, Kori – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
This article traces how a language and soft skills training approach to Canadian immigrant integration emerged with Canada's shift towards a post-industrial tertiary economy. In this economy, soft skills index characteristics of ideal workers that fit the needs of Canada's post-Fordist labour regime. It examines how skills' training is not viewed…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Immigrants, Social Integration, Communication Skills
Sabaté Dalmau, Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an "ethnic" call shop in a marginal neighborhood near Barcelona. This was a late capitalist institution informally providing the undocumented…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Interviews, Urban Areas, Sociolinguistics
