Tobias Pötzsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Pötzsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Pötzsch |
| SIGNATURE | PÖTZSCH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9778-4515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bilingualism and Multilingualism in Street Level Social Welfare Service Settings
Multilingualism receives limited support in welfare systems, as shifting migration and rising nationalism complicate its management despite varying policy recognition across countries. This scoping review contributes to the growing body of literature on language and social welfare by examining how bilingualism and multilingualism are negotiated by street-level bureaucrats in their interactions with clients. While formal language policy is rarely …
Some Useful Sources
Absented narratives on racism and white social framing
Introduction
This themed section explores linguistic disadvantage as a key form of structural-institutional disadvantage in welfare societies, focusing on how language policies, practices, and ideologies shape migrant background service users’ access to services, rights, and social protection. The novel contribution by the team of authors with a background in social policy, social work, sociology, and ethnology is to fill existing conceptual and empirical gap…
Language Hierarchies, Liminality, and Resistance in Canadian and Finnish Integration Educations for Adult Migrants
This article explores the effects of language hierarchies within SFI (Swedish for Immigrants) and LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) national integration programmes and how discourses of civic integrationism framed around monolingualism and neoliberalism position adult migrant students in the liminal spaces between belonging and othering. Based on research findings obtained during multiple case study fieldwork in Finland and Cana…
Critical Social Inclusion of Adult Migrant Language Learners in Working Life
How can integration education programs facilitate the more seamless inclusion of migrant newcomers into working life and civil society? Traditionally, integration policy and practice have been framed within a nation‐state discourse in which views of migrant incorporation are grounded within a bordered nationalism embodying a native–migrant dichotomy that reifies the view of the “migrant other” as a subject defined by its “lack” in competence and …
Youth on the Move
Language Hierarchies, Liminality, and Resistance in Canadian and Finnish Integration Educations for Adult Migrants
This article explores the effects of language hierarchies within SFI (Swedish for Immigrants) and LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) national integration programmes and how discourses of civic integrationism framed around monolingualism and neoliberalism position adult migrant students in the liminal spaces between belonging and othering. Based on research findings obtained during multiple case study fieldwork in Finland and Cana…
Critical Social Inclusion of Adult Migrant Language Learners in Working Life
How can integration education programs facilitate the more seamless inclusion of migrant newcomers into working life and civil society? Traditionally, integration policy and practice have been framed within a nation‐state discourse in which views of migrant incorporation are grounded within a bordered nationalism embodying a native–migrant dichotomy that reifies the view of the “migrant other” as a subject defined by its “lack” in competence and …
Critical Social Inclusion of Adult Migrant Language Learners in Working Life
How can integration education programs facilitate the more seamless inclusion of migrant newcomers into working life and civil society? Traditionally, integration policy and practice have been framed within a nation‐state discourse in which views of migrant incorporation are grounded within a bordered nationalism embodying a native–migrant dichotomy that reifies the view of the “migrant other” as a subject defined by its “lack” in competence and …
Youth on the Move
Language Hierarchies, Liminality, and Resistance in Canadian and Finnish Integration Educations for Adult Migrants
This article explores the effects of language hierarchies within SFI (Swedish for Immigrants) and LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) national integration programmes and how discourses of civic integrationism framed around monolingualism and neoliberalism position adult migrant students in the liminal spaces between belonging and othering. Based on research findings obtained during multiple case study fieldwork in Finland and Cana…
Some Useful Sources
Absented narratives on racism and white social framing
Introduction
This themed section explores linguistic disadvantage as a key form of structural-institutional disadvantage in welfare societies, focusing on how language policies, practices, and ideologies shape migrant background service users’ access to services, rights, and social protection. The novel contribution by the team of authors with a background in social policy, social work, sociology, and ethnology is to fill existing conceptual and empirical gap…
Bilingualism and Multilingualism in Street Level Social Welfare Service Settings
Multilingualism receives limited support in welfare systems, as shifting migration and rising nationalism complicate its management despite varying policy recognition across countries. This scoping review contributes to the growing body of literature on language and social welfare by examining how bilingualism and multilingualism are negotiated by street-level bureaucrats in their interactions with clients. While formal language policy is rarely …
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Inclusion (mineral (2 works) · Liminality (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works)