In:Migration, Language, and Policy Discourse: Bridging the gap between policymaking and language assessment
Laura Schildt
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 59] 2026
► pp. 154–178
Chapter 9Discourses in migration language policy
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Article outline
- Policy rationales
- Official discourse and underlying policy intentions
- Policy rationales in the Flemish context
- Unexamined policy rationales
- Methodology
- Research context: The Flemish political landscape
- Participants
- Data collection
- Methodological framework
- Membership categorisation analysis
- Application of MCA
- Analysis
- Flemish people
- Newcomer
- Nationalist
- All Political Parties
- Reflections and implications
- Policy rationales rooted in underlying needs
- The identity rationale
- Neoliberal rationale
- Regulatory rationale
- Instrumental rationale
- Future policy recommendations
- Addressing core needs
- Concluding remarks
