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Project

A sociolinguistic ethnographic study of the activation of migrant job seekers in Flanders

This project investigates how policy makers’ investments in improving linguistic competences in order to increase employment rates among immigrants are put into practice. The project proposes a sociolinguistic ethnographic analysis of the role of language in the different stages of the activation trajectories that immigrant job seekers are inserted in in Flanders.

Date:1 Jan 2017 →  31 Dec 2020
Keywords:language, activation
Disciplines:Sociolinguistics, Discourse studies, Language studies, Linguistics