The podcast discusses the experiences of migrants in Australia over 20 years, focusing on language learning, settlement, work, family, and identity. It explores how migration reshapes family dynamics and language choices, highlighting challenges faced by parents. The episode also delves into collaborative writing, linguistic diversity, and efforts to address language barriers in healthcare for marginalized groups.
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Migrant families navigate identity through bidirectional language learning.
Government policies must support linguistic diversity and heritage languages for migrant families.
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Exploring Language Learning and Settlement Experiences of Migrants in Australia
The podcast episode discusses a new book, Life in a New Language, co-authored by various experts, delving into the experiences of 130 migrants from 34 countries in Australia over 20 years. The book shares insights on language learning, finding work, family life, as well as experiences with racism and identity. It highlights migrants' hardships, courage, and resilience, emphasizing the importance of language service provision, migration policy, open science, and social justice movements.
Insights on Language Learning in Migrant Families
The episode features Dr. Matagi Shiva Tabari discussing her research on bidirectional language learning in migrant families, particularly focusing on Persian-speaking Iranian migrants in Australia. The research reveals the impact of language learning on identities and interactions within families. It emphasizes how children's language fluency can affect parent-child relationships, highlighting the complex interplay between language, identity, and family dynamics in the context of migration.
Challenges and Policy Recommendations for Migrant Families
Dr. Tabari highlights the challenges faced by migrant families in making language choices and maintaining heritage languages while adapting to a new society. The episode explores mixed messages from educators, underlining the need for comprehensive language support services and welcoming environments to support migrants. The discussion also raises the importance of governmental policies and educational strategies to facilitate smoother transitions and promote linguistic diversity and family languages in the community.
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxford University Press. Life in a New Language examines the language learning and settlement experiences of 130 migrants to Australia from 34 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America over a period of 20 years. It’s co-authored by Ingrid Piller, Donna Butorac, Emily Farrell, Loy Lising, Shiva Motaghi Tabari, and Vera Williams Tetteh.
In this series, Brynn Quick chats with each of the co-authors about their personal insights and research contributions to the book.