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Direct linkLu, Luke – Language Policy, 2021
This paper suggests an explicatory model for language policy reform (or lack thereof) at the level of the state. This is accomplished by assessing the value of the 'punctuated equilibrium' model of public policy analysis (Howlett and Migone, Policy and Society 30(1):53-62, 2011), which I argue can be strengthened by a genealogical approach…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Planning, Public Policy, Models
Schnitzer, Anna – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Families that live in a new environment after having fled or migrated go through transformation processes that are connected to various challenges and possibilities. The focus of this paper is on negotiations of language policies in family biographies and family language practices, comparing cases of migrant families who arrived to Switzerland in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Family Relationship
Download full textSomé-Guiébré, Esther – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
This paper examines how the children of African immigrants construct their identity in the United States. The U.S. immigration policies allowing citizens of foreign countries to migrate into the country, have favored the immigration of many Africans into the country. Many of those immigrants experience challenges ranging from language and economic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Self Concept, Public Policy
Spolsky, Bernard – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
In studying language policy, it is not enough to look at central government management, but also at the influence of managers at levels ranging from the family to international organizations. Actual cases reveal that there are also non-linguistic forces such as demography, war, civil strife, and economic breakdowns which have major effects. This…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Land Settlement
Picot, Garnett – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
This working paper seeks to explore the reasons why educational attainment in the immigrant population varies between North America and Europe. Specifically, the examples of Canada and Switzerland are used as Canada has an immigrant population with a typically higher rate of post-secondary education than that of the domestic population, while in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants, Educational Attainment
Gray, Susan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
Meeting the educational needs of a linguistically diverse population is a challenge for many countries. This is a particular challenge for New Zealand (NZ) which, until the 1980s, had a White Immigration Policy. The last 30 years have seen NZ become a full member of the Asia Pacific Region and move from being a mostly homogenous society to one of…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Immigration, Public Policy
