34.1893, FYI: Language and Healthcare Work: Focusing on Trade, Migration, and Policy Discourse (ft. Dr OTOMO Ruriko)

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Subject: 34.1893, FYI: Language and Healthcare Work: Focusing on Trade, Migration, and Policy Discourse (ft. Dr OTOMO Ruriko)

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Date: 14-Jun-2023
From: Maria Telegina [mstelegina at gmail.com]
Subject: Language and Healthcare Work: Focusing on Trade, Migration, and Policy Discourse (ft. Dr OTOMO Ruriko)


Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
Language and Identity Workshop Series
Language and Healthcare Work
Keynote Lecture
Date: Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 9:00 am - 10:00 am (JST)
Location: Zoom

Abstract:

In Japan and elsewhere, the major focus of language policy research
has been language-in-education policies primarily because (language)
education is one of the main vehicles for reproduction, be it social,
economic, political, or symbolic. Recently, however, researchers have
called for a renewed approach to language policing and for more
attention to other forms of policies in which language, human
communication and sociocultural issues get represented in the policy
discourses. Resonating with these important calls in the field, this
talk focuses on a free-trade policy as a form of language policy that
requires serious scholarly attention.

The free-trade policy in question is the Economic Partnership
Agreement (EPA) singed between Japan and Indonesia, the Philippines
and Vietnam respectively since 2008. It enables the Japanese side to
manage the workforce mobility of migrant nurses and caregivers mainly
by means of pre-employment (language) training and the Japanese-medium
licensure examinations.
By presenting part of her analysis of the language management devices
and that of policy discourses surrounding the EPA, Dr. OTOMO Ruriko
argues the EPA is expected to bring little fundamental change to
Japan’s language policy in the near-term future. While the social
ageing and the pressing need for (workforce) migration spell an
abundance of opportunities for multilingual human encounters as well
as ideological negotiation and shifts, the EPA is found to reinforce
or capitalise on the existing “old” ideologies rather than to enhance
multilingualism as well as social justice for the benefit of the
migrant population.

For more information including registration:
https://www.tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/ai1ec_event/9478/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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