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"Employers Could Use Us, but They Don't": Voices from Blue-Collar Workplaces in a Northern Periphery
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Direct linkHolm, Anna-Elisabeth; O'Rourke, Bernadette; Danson, Mike – Language Policy, 2020
This article analyses labour market experiences of migrants of non-Nordic origin who have settled in the Faroe Islands, a small North Atlantic archipelago with a population of about 51,000 people. By examining the experiences of educated migrant workers who are employed in three different blue-collar workplaces: a cleaning company and two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Blue Collar Occupations, Second Language Learning
Theodoropoulou, Irene – Language Policy, 2020
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the role of language in multilingual blue-collar workplaces by investigating how communication is realized in construction sites in Qatar. The State of Qatar offers a unique and, hence, very interesting setting for the linguistic investigation of migration-related issues, such as…
Descriptors: Construction (Process), Foreign Countries, Language Role, Multilingualism
Gonçalves, Kellie; Schluter, Anne – Language Policy, 2017
This article investigates the covert language policy and micro-language planning practices of one female Brazilian-American entrepreneur, Magda, within her multilingual cleaning company. Because Magda is plurilingual (Spolsky in "Language policy." Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004), she is able to draw on her metalinguistic…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Work Environment, Service Occupations
