Language and employability. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the activation of migrant job seekers in Flanders

This project proposes a sociolinguistic ethnographic analysis of the activation trajectories in which migrant job seekers are inserted by the Flemish employment agency VDAB. The analysis is aimed at acquiring insight in the different stages of these trajectories, focusing on the relation between small-scale interactional practices, policy requirements and public macro-discourses on integration, linguistic diversity and work.