Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A new paper, “Immigrants and the Importance of Language Learning for a Global Society,” addresses why language skills are key for immigrants to integrate successfully and contribute fully to our country. The paper assesses relevant new cross-sector partnerships and focuses on benefits including economic self-sufficiency and contextualized skills training.

Immigrant integration unfortunately is not a focus of many policymakers and political leaders. Adult ESL programs are often overenrolled and not available to all immigrants who want to learn English. It would seem that providing tools for immigrant integration is a more effective use of scarce resources than failed efforts to keep immigrants out of the country.

KJ

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/10/immigrants-and-the-importance-of-language-learning-for-a-global-society.html