Aiming at Civic Integration? How Canada’s Naturalization Rules are Sidelining Refugees and Family-Class Immigrants

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-97
Author(s):  
Delphine Nakache ◽  
Jennifer Stone ◽  
Elke Winter
Keyword(s):  
Civic Integration ◽  
Family Class

Longitudinal Patterns of Religious Perspective and Civic Integration

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kerestes ◽  
James Youniss ◽  
Edward Metz
Keyword(s):  
Religious Perspective ◽  
Longitudinal Patterns ◽  
Civic Integration

scholarly journals Interactional regimes of sociolinguistic behaviour: An ethnographic exploration of the scales at play across the spaces of an asylum-seeking centre

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Spotti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Civic Integration

AbstractDrawing on the notion of sociolinguistic scaling, the present contribution argues for an understanding of an asylum-seeking centre as a unit of inquiry in which sociolinguistic repertoires are played out during intercultural communicative encounters. The contribution shows how the centre’s spaces encapsulate time- and space-bound interactional regimes and language hierarchies. Taken as such, the different rooms that make up the centre, e. g. the office, the activity room and the corridor, all may seem neutral spaces where the daily lives of people unfold. However, each of these spaces invites, allows and dismisses various interactional sociolinguistic regimes that lead to micro-practices of inclusion and exclusion. The article concludes with a consideration on whether the homogeneous category ‘newly arrived migrant in need of civic integration’ authored by many governments across Europe, should not be re-evaluated, in light of the affordances of sociolinguistic scaling and digital literacy potentials that each of these newly arrived individuals have in stock in their repertoires.

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