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Are foreign languages a threat to the host country culture and language?
by Glenn Soenvisen In the mid-90’s a new term, “Kebab-Norwegian,” was coined in Norway; it meant the dialect of the Norwegian language which contained relatively many loanwords from non-western...
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Where does youth hostility toward immigrants stem from?
by Anastasia Maillot Although we live in a highly globalized world where a multitude of cultures, languages and traditions coexist, in the past few years hostility towards immigrants has grown into a...
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Transnational migration of people and capital
by Curran Cunningham This first blog is intended to set the parameters for my forthcoming analysis of International Migration. As a keen reader on economic matters, my focus will be primarily on the...
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Refugees and assimilation
by Naresh Kumar Different countries receive thousands of refugees every year. All of them come from different religions, cultures, and share different moral values that makes them identical in the host...
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The Dilemma of Multicultural Education
Anonymous student post As I have noted in the previous blog post, Singapore is dealing with problems that have appeared due to the cultural and linguistic diversity brought by immigrants. Besides the...
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Reconsidering Assimilation Theories: The Case of China
by Yuan Mingyang Although the new assimilation theory supported by Alba and Nee (1997) and the segmented assimilation theory in Portes and Rumbaut (2001) to some extent explain the experience of...
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