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Erling, Elizabeth J., Philip Seargeant, Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury and Mike Solly. 2019. “Successful” migration, (English) language skills and global inequality: The case of Bangladeshi migrants to the Middle East. Multilingua 38 (3) : 253–282.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
applied linguistics | economics | foreign language acquisition | foreign language proficiency | job training | language policy | migration | social inequality
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper explores whether Bangladeshi migrants to the Middle East benefit from their English language skills to find a job abroad, when social inequality is (re)produced in the migration context.