 Speaking Swedish: The Role of Language Skills in an Integration Support ProjectHanna Hellgren ()
Chapter 10 in Organising Immigrants' Integration, 2023, pp 169-187 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores the role of language skills in an integration support project aimed at matching immigrants with employment. Language skills are often described as a key to the successful integration of immigrants into the labour market and society. However, ideas of what constitutes language skills and the level of proficiency required tend to shift over time and, depending on context and demands placed on immigrants, are often unclear. In the project reported on here, language skills emerged as a central issue, giving rise to new activities and a re-categorisation of the group to be targeted. The chapter is based on a qualitative, longitudinal field study that included interviews and observations/shadowing. It concludes that the meaning of “language skills” is situated and can remain ambiguous and open to interpretation at the same time as requirements for language skills become a tool for classification. Keywords: Local collaboration; Labour market project; Employability; Language skills; Target groups (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-26821-2_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26821-2_10 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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