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Publication details [#8913]

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove. 1980. Semilingualism and the education of migrant children as a means of reproducing the caste of assembly line workers. Tijdschrift van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel 21 (2) : 100–136.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | immigrant worker's child | prestige | social inequality

Annotation

Semilingualism is said to be produced in a situation where minority children from working class homes are forced to accept instruction through the medium of a foreign majority language, and where their own mother tongue has a low prestige.