Project overview
This project will establish the linguistic challenges that onward migrants (OMs) face in their everyday lives, the linguistic needs they have, and the extent to which these are known to and met by existing policymakers and policy advocates.
The project team will work closely with the external partners identified above and with focus groups of OMs to produce a policy brief and a research agenda. The policy brief will summarise research findings and provide recommendations for closing the gaps in linguistic support that may currently exist; ways to reach OMs as particular subsets of citizens whose languages are often ignored or rejected by society, and anticipated benefits of doing so.
The research agenda will identify specific avenues for further investigation into the link between language and onward migration, including funding opportunities and details on how the working relationship between the project team and the external partners will be developed in the future.
Research team
- PI: Petros Karatsareas
- Co-Is: Vally Lytra (Goldsmiths), Adriana Patiño-Santos (Southampton), Emmanouil Pratsinakis (Oxford)
- Research Fellow: Yara Evans
- PDRAs: Peter Browning, Rexhina Ndoci, Giulia Pepe
- Consultant: Domiziana Turcatti
Partners
- Casa do Brasil Londres
- Latin American House
- Shpresa Programme
- The Embassies/Consulates of Brazil, Colombia and Italy