Discourses of integration
Language, skills, and the politics of difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11293756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mi-Cha Flubacher (0000-0001-7011-9873, University of Vienna), Shirley Mo Ching Yeung (0000-0002-5566-1573, University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author), Shirley Yeung |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Multilingua (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/multi-2015-0076 |
| OpenAlex | W2546732809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 11 |
In this introduction, we outline the most relevant concepts for this special issue on integration and the politics of difference. This introduction characterizes “integration” as a dominant policy orientation and discursive regime concerned primarily with understandings of language, communication, and skill which constitute a (trans)national politics of difference. In various sites and national contexts of the global north, migrant “integration” policies render difference and mobility the site of both discursive elaboration and management. This introduction highlights the salience of critical ethnographic analyses for understanding “integration” beyond policy realms, arguing for attention to situated practices, emergent social categories and types, political-economic stakes, logics of linguistic (dis)engagement, and the reproduction of mono- and multilingual social orders. In particular, we propose to untangle this complex by describing three central processes that run through all of the contributions and which, we suggest, are indispensable for the analysis of current and emergent regimes of integration: processes of categorization, of selection, and of activation
Categorization · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Salience (neuroscience · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
An Alternative Narrative of Integration In Germany through an Ethnographic Exploration of Cuban Immigration
The ‘politics of speed’ and language integration policies
La integración a través de la lengua
There's Nothing Strange
Indexical borders
Beyond Language
Standaardnederlands, de sleutel tot integratie in Vlaanderen
The case of Mesut Özil
Language as a Key to Society? Perceptions of Language, Belonging, and Responsibility among Migrants in Sweden
Re-orienting to language users
Engineering commodifiable workers
The value(s) of volunteering
Selling the self’
Conceptualising Linguistic Disadvantage in the Context of Diversifying Welfare Institutions
Dance, multilingual repertoires and the Italian landscape
Language as a resource
Shifting multilingual strategies in a Flemish public healthcare service
The slowness of language, the speed of capital
Collaborative research practices in the study of diasporisation
Multilingualism and activism in Italian studies
Creating the illusion of speaking Romanian well”
Okra in translation
Language, (em)power(ment) and affective capitalism
If they could, they would put them on a drip with Dutch
Say it in Swedish
Governmentality and Language
The Audacity of Affect
Ethnography in/of the World System
Naturalization language testing and its basis in ideologies of national identity and citizenship
Language, power and identity
Language, employment, and settlement
Language Policy in Practice
Contradictions of standard language in Europe
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Governance
Opening the Black Box of Migration
When Talk Isn't Cheap
Skills and selves in the new workplace
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |