Titel
The making of ‘good citizens’: German courses for migrants and refugees
Abstract
Newcomers to Austria and Germany are obliged to learn German, as both of the nation states define themselves as monolingual – although millions of citizens speak more than one language. The demand to learn the national language is promoted by the shaky promise that it is an entrance ticket to the labour market and also a sine qua non to be respected by German and Austrian citizens. The main research questions of this qualitative study on language courses for migrants and refugees in Germany and Austria are as follows. Which normative knowledge is conveyed to students? How is it conveyed? How do students resist, and sometimes even subvert the (hidden) endeavours of the courses? Through participatory observation, interviews with teachers and a discourse analysis of the state accredited teaching materials, I demonstrate how Eurocentric norms are reproduced and stabilized. The first results highlight the reproduction of mainstream norms and the production of three different interwoven subject types: a) the economic subject who responds appropriately to the needs of a national neoliberal labour market; b) the submissive subject who agrees to norms and rules without the power to fully politically participate; c) the othered subject who forms the pleasing ’constitutive outside‘ of the national body.
Stichwort
Integrationrefugeeslanguage coursessubject formationnormalization
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:937152
Erschienen in
Titel
Studies in the Education of Adults
Band
49
Ausgabe
2
Seitenanfang
177
Seitenende
195
Verlag
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© 2018 The Author(s)

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