Research Impact in Action Workshop

  • Fadel, L. (Speaker)
  • Bernadette O'Rourke (Speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an eventParticipation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

This 1.5 day event is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between the Global Law project of Tilburg Law School and the Babylon Centre for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg School of Humanities. The Impact in Action workshop in Tilburg on 23-24 March 2017 forms part of the EU-funded COST Action New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges initiative on the theme of Migration and Asylum.

Our talk explored the sociolinguistic aspects of the refugee experience with a focus on questions of conceptualisation of self by self/ by others, legitimacy, empowerment, and discourse and counter-discourse (writing back).
Period23 Mar 201724 Mar 2017
Event typeWorkshop
LocationTillburg, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of RecognitionRegional

Keywords

  • Refugees, new speakers, legitimacy, discourse, socio-linguistic integration