4th Int Seminar of AILA ReN Language and Migration

[Stef Slembrouck]

Jan 28-29, 2010: LANGUAGE, MIGRATION AND LABOUR

Please find below the announcement and call for abstracts for the 4th 
International Seminar on Language and Migration, sponsored by the AILA 
Research Network on Language and Migration.

Location: Fribourg, Switzerland
Contact Person: Alexandre Duchêne
Meeting Email: alexandre.duchene at unifr.ch 

For information, see www.institut-plurilinguisme.ch

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2009

Meeting Description:

The fourth AILA Language and Migration Research Network Seminar focuses on 
the relationship between language, migration flows and labour processes. Our 
major concern is to explore the complex relationship between the economic 
and cultural capital of migrants and its use or exploitation by power 
institutions in a globalized labour market. We will focus on the role of language 
in access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes. The seminar 
will address some of the following key issues:

A) The way language operates as a means of social selection in the workplace 
for migrants (ie. the role of language skills in recruitment processes or job 
performance, with attendant issues of measurement and evaluation);
B) Language teaching for migrants and acquisition of language proficiencies on 
the workfloor (including literacy issues);
C) The capitalization by employers of migrant language skills in the 
management of multilingualism (through commodification of language and 
identity and/or the (non)-recognition of crucial multilingual practices);
D) The role of language in the regulation of labour market related migration 
trajectories.

Plenary speakers:

- Beatriz P. Lorente, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Ingrid Piller, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
- Cécile Vigouroux, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Registration fees: 150 CHF
Deadline: 27 November, 2009

Host Institution:

Institute of Multilingualism
University and HEP Fribourg
Rue de Morat 24
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
Tel +41 26 305 61 73

Chair: Prof. Alexandre Duchêne (alexandre.duchene at unifr.ch)

General information regarding hotel, program and inscription will be posted on 
our website: www.institut-plurilinguisme.ch

For information on the AILA Research Network on Language and Migration, 
please consult: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~extcmh/ReNLM/index.htm

Call for Papers and Posters

Please submit by e-mail a 300-word abstract of your paper or poster proposal.
Include your name, affiliation, address, phone and e-mail at the end of your 
abstract. The abstract should include enough detail to allow reviewers to 
judge the scientific merits of the proposal. Please mention whether you would 
like to present a paper or a poster.

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Oral papers will be allotted 30 
minutes, allowing 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. An 
extra poster session will be organized.

In order to insure discussion between the participants, no parallel sessions will 
be organized. As a consequence the number of accepted oral papers will be 
limited.

Abstract submissions should be sent to Liselotte Lutz: lutzl at edufr.ch

Deadlines

The submission deadline for proposals for papers is October 1st, 2009.
Acknowledgement of receipt of the abstract will be sent by e-mail as soon as 
possible after receipt. You will receive notification of acceptance no later than 
November 1st, 2009.

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