Translingual Discrimination

Skilled Transnational Migrants in the Labour Market of Australia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22871908
AutoresSender Dovchin (0000-0003-4327-7096, School of Education, Curtin University Bentley Campus, Perth, WA 6102, Australia, autor correspondente), Stephanie Dryden (0000-0001-6765-7005, School of Education, Curtin University Bentley Campus, Perth, WA 6102, Australia)
Ano2022
Volume43
Fascículo2
Páginas365-388
Data de publicação2022-03-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoApplied Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0142-6001 • E-ISSN: 1477-450X
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/applin/amab041
OpenAlexW3193885985
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas43

Drawing on linguistic ethnographic data, this study examines the language-based discriminatory experiences of skilled transnational migrants in the labour market of Australia. Moving beyond two main concepts of ‘interlingual’ and ‘intra-lingual’ discrimination in applied linguistics, this article points out the concept of ‘translingual discrimination’, which refers to inequality based on transnational identities’ specific linguistic repertoires and backgrounds that are substantiated by the national order of things. Translingual discrimination adds intensity to transnational processes, with the skilled migrants showing particular potential for exclusion regarding two factors: translingual ‘name discrimination’ and ‘English discrimination’. ‘Translingual name discrimination’ is a homogenous form of ‘name’ policing, evident in multiple examples where the skilled transnational migrants’ job applications are often largely rejected on the grounds of their ‘birth name’ written on their curriculum vitae. ‘Translingual English discrimination’ is another common form of discrimination, where the skilled transnational migrants become subject to discrimination based on their English proficiency and their overall language skills, leading to ‘the paradoxes of migration’—discrepancies between the imagination and the reality—where they fall from ‘hero to zero’ in the host society.

Curriculum · Ethnography · Inequality · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Pedagogy · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Anthropology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy