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Narges Ghandchi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Recent studies explore youth and children language brokering at the interface of caregiving for their migrant families and frame this conceptualisation as interactionally mediated practicing of care with the overall purpose of family sustainability during the family's coping process within the migration context. From this joint perspective, youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Relationship, Translation, Migrants
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Sanna Mustonen; Maiju Strömmer – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The number of migrant students in vocational education in Finland is rising. Their educational backgrounds and language resources are diverse, and research is needed to gain better understanding on how their existing knowledge can be acknowledged, supported, and deployed when they become multilingual professionals in their own fields. In this…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Health Personnel, Migrants, Adults
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Estévez Grossi, Marta – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The aim of this contribution is to analyze the linguistic practices of a migrant collective, speakers of a minoritized language, from a glottopolitical perspective. This will be illustrated by the description of the communicative practices of the migrant workers from Galicia (Spain) in Hanover (Federal Republic of Germany) in the 1960s and beyond.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Minorities, Language Usage, Migrant Workers
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Ross, Tara – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
New Zealand's Pacific communities face significant generational language loss and their media are increasingly produced in English, raising questions about the centrality of language for ethnic media and their audiences. By drawing on semi-structured interviews with 23 media producers, this study finds tensions within and between Pacific-language…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups, Audiences, Mass Media