Language and Power
This process decides who can stay in a country and is influenced by how someone tells their story.
What is the Asylum Process
Immigration can create new ways of speaking called this, made from many languages.
What is a multiethnolect?
Citizenship tests are based on this kind of narrow idea of who belongs.
What is nationalism?
Blommaert says this everyday skill becomes a tool of control in the asylum system
What is language?
This German dialect blends Turkish, Arabic, and German in immigrant communities.
What is Kiezdeutsch?
People who speak in non-standard ways may be unfairly seen as this.
What is untrustworthy or unfit?
Language testing for citizenship is really about fitting into this kind of national idea.
What is national identity?
John McWhorter says immigration always leads to this change in language.
What is evolution or natural change?
These tests are supposed to measure language but really test if you act like this ideal figure.
What is a “good citizen”?
According to Pillard, passing a language test may falsely show that someone has this moral quality
What is loyalty or good character?
This term describes a place where many languages and cultures mix together, often changing how people speak.
What is a multicultural society?
Blommaert says this kind of “order” is behind how states judge asylum seekers’ stories
What is the national order (of things)?