This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … language skills in immigrant selection. A difference between differences approach is used to isolate the impacts of these … category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant's language skills. The increased English Proficiency …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of … perspective - the distributive socio-economic effects of language policies, their impact on justice and inequality at the national … or international level, as well as the connection between language choices and an inclusive access to public services …