Discursive policy webs in a globalisation era
A discussion of access to professions and trades for immigrant professionals in Ontario, Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12726152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle P Goldberg (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-102 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Globalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14767720600555103 |
| OpenAlex | W2094316162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article explores the link between discourse and policy using a discursive web metaphor. It develops the notion of policy as a discursive web based on a post‐positivist framework that recognises the way multiple discourses from multiple voices interact in a complex web of power relationships to influence reality. Using Ontario's Access to Professions and Trades as the policy example, it demonstrates how globalisation and neo‐liberalism facilitate a ‘brain drain’ discourse, which in the Canadian, and specifically Ontario, context evolved into a ‘skills shortage’ discursive web. Deconstructing the discourses in this web, I expose how their interactions facilitate policy solutions such as assessment or training while constraining others
Context (archaeology · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Economic shortage · Globalization · Ideology · Immigration · Linguistics · Media studies · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy
Infrastructuring AI
Towards ‘policy responsible’ language testing
Instantiating justice, fairness and inclusiveness in English as an Additional Language/Dialect assessment frameworks
Magnets, gatekeepers, surveillants, and refiners
Language testers and their place in the policy web
The Canadian Multicultural Education Policy Web
International student recruitment to universities in England
Rhetorical analysis in critical policy research
Indigenous Language Ecologies framework
The Determinants of Brain Drain and the Role of Citizenship in Skilled Migration
Emancipating and Empowering De-Valued Skilled Immigrants
Canada and the Global Rush for International Students
Education reform
Making Global Rules
Deconstructing Canada’s discourse of immigrant integration
The Subject and Power
Education Policy
Opinion Discourse and Canadian Newspapers
Earning Disparities between Immigrants and Native‐born Canadians
Producing hi-tech
Language and Neo-Liberalism
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse
Big Policies/Small World
Media/ting change
Mediating globalisation
Immigrant Success in the Knowledge Economy
Understanding the new management ideology
The (im)possibility of intellectual work in neoliberal regimes
What Is Policy? Texts, Trajectories and Toolboxes
Policy Trajectories
Governmentality, criticism, politics
New borders, new management
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |