Language playfulness of contextual navigators:Young refugees’ language strategies for inclusion in the Netherlands

This dissertation explores how young refugees (ages 12–23) develop and adapt their language strategies during their participation and integration trajectories from their stay in Dutch asylum seekers centres through living in Dutch society for several years. The language strategies – (Dutch) language learning, language choices, and multilingual (co-)creations – of young refugees in the Netherlands have so far remained unexamined, even though integration studies with migrants have revealed a “doubleness” of Dutch language learning (Eijberts and Ghorashi, 2017) that creates experiences of inclusi... Mehr ...