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the movement of organisms into a specific area. Compare EMIGRATION.

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The exact requirements of Taiwan's new immigrant language teacher labor force will be fully understood after surveys are carried out next year.

Taiwan's new education plan to include new immigrant language courses

A case in which a minority and immigrant language seems to enjoy positive attitudes can be seen in Jansen's (2013) study investigating Haitian immigration to the bateyes of the Dominican Republic.

LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES IN AN IMMIGRANT LANGUAGE SETTING: THE CASE OF A EUROPEAN LANGUAGE IN MEXICO

Immigrant Language Proficiency, Earnings, and Language Policies.

Language policies and programs for adult immigrants in Canada: a critical analysis

Chapter two explores how initial language tolerance at the birth of the American nation was soon supplanted with suspicion of immigrant languages. US society on the verge of World War I conflated speaking English with loyalty.

A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945

These studies have played an invaluable role in placing the issue of immigrant language barriers at the center of research and policy debates on welfare-to-work issues.

Language barriers & perceptions of bias: ethnic differences in immigrant encounters with the welfare system

This study of immigrant language skills used data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which followed a cohort of settler arrivals for the first 3.5 years of their residence in Australia, surveying them at three points in time.

Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey. Discussion Paper

Follow-up interviews were held with 19 of these companies, selected on the basis of demonstrating innovative ways of using immigrant language resources, to obtain best practice data.

DIVERSITY AS A PRODUCTIVE RESOURCE: EMPLOYMENT OF IMMIGRANTS FROM NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING BACKGROUNDS IN NEW ZEALAND

Yiddish has shifted from a Jewish immigrant language to a Jewish heritage and ethnic language within the rubric of Canadian multiculturalism.

Yiddish and multiculturalism: a marriage made in heaven?

Gendered identities and immigrant language learning.

Gendered identities and immigrant language learning

It describes language demography, discusses school enrollment trends among minority and immigrant language speakers, and notes the official status of languages in the United States, explaining that even though there is not an official, national, or constitutional U.S.

Minority Languages in the United States, with a Focus on Spanish in California

For students and researchers interested in promoting educational equity and achievement for immigrant language minority students.

The education of language minority immigrants in the United States

Notwithstanding the merits of the conventional method of studying the ethnic economy, this paper offers an alternative view of the ethnic enclave as a specialized consumer market in which ethnic or immigrant consumers patronize a lingustically-specific market in which products and services are advertised in an immigrant language, and transactions take place in concentrated ethnic business locations where an immigrant language is typically used in transactions, or in nonimmigrant owned firms which offer services in an immigrant language.

The consumer market of the enclave economy: A study of advertisements in a Chinese daily newspaper in Toronto