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Speaking Swedish: The Role of Language Skills in an Integration Support Project

In: Organising Immigrants' Integration

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  • Hanna Hellgren

    (University of Gothenburg)

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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.

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  • Hanna Hellgren, 2023. "Speaking Swedish: The Role of Language Skills in an Integration Support Project," Springer Books, in: Andreas Diedrich & Barbara Czarniawska (ed.), Organising Immigrants' Integration, chapter 10, pages 169-187, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-26821-2_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26821-2_10
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