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- Title
Healthcare professionals on the move: Investing in learning a new language for work.
- Authors
SCHLEICHER, NÓRA; SUNI, MINNA
- Abstract
This article investigates the interrelationship of migration and language in the context of the migration experience of healthcare workers migrating from Hungary to Finland and Sweden and becoming speakers of Finnish or Swedish in the process. A nexus analytical approach is applied in studying the investment of the healthcare workers in learning a new language for work. The analysis is based on interviews made with individuals either participating in or facilitating labour migration. The findings show that the investment in learning a new language in a labour migration context is intertwined with the migration decision itself, and the migrants usually realise a return on this investment while becoming legitimate second language speakers and community members. Individual life histories, global recruitment practices, language policies and language ideologies influence the process. The communicative situations at the workplace play a crucial role in reconstructing professional identities in this context.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; FINLAND; SWEDEN; MEDICAL personnel; FOREIGN language education; LANGUAGE policy; PROFESSIONAL identity; LANGUAGE &; languages; SECOND language acquisition
- Publication
Lähivõrdlusi / Lähivertailuja, 2021, Issue 31, p191
- ISSN
1736-9290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5128/LV31.06