Migration and Adult Language Learning: Global Flows and Local Transpositions

In the 21st century, global flows politically, socially, economically, and environmentally (Burbules Singh Sc Doherty, 2004) are creating widespread movements of people around the world and giving rise to increased resettlements of immigrants and refugees internationally (Roberts 8c Baynham, 2006). The reality in most countries worldwide is that contemporary populations are multifaceted, multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, and multi/plurilingual (Tolle fson, 1991; Tsui Chiswick & Miller, 1992). It provides access to major venues and locations of national and community life and affects in innumerable ways on the lives of those who resettle.