The paper provides an example of how immigration is constructed by receiving societies as a comprehension or language problem that requires special solutions. It focuses on the application of Easy-to-Read, a simplified register currently in expansion which addresses different groups of people with intellectual disabilities, to immigrants in Spain.…

Considers some ways in which indirect racial bias arises through interaction between participants of different ethnic backgrounds. Discusses a case study based on the experiences of a group of Asian textile workers, focusing on the differences in perception and assumptions between a government (British) training advisor and an Asian interviewee at…

In recent years, public discourse about German national identity has increasingly focussed on the large foreign population within Germany's borders. Whilst right-wing politicians such as Edmund Stoiber foster fears of identity loss ("Uberfremdung"), more liberal observers, and indeed the ruling red-green coalition, acknowledge that…