Comments on: Patriots and traitors https://languageonthemove.com/patriots-and-traitors/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Fri, 27 Nov 2020 05:02:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Noor https://languageonthemove.com/patriots-and-traitors/#comment-4696 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:11:43 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=5979#comment-4696 An impressive blog.
Thank you Ingrid for sharing it.
The youth these days do immigrate to western lands for greener pastures as Khan said but they end up with odd jobs in a foreign land. Language proficiency, high IELTS and TEFOL scores, expertise in their own fields just dont get them anywhere. The ones living abroad need to tell the ones planning to move that being a first rate citizen in a third world country is better than being rated a third-class citizen in a first world country.

]]> By: khan https://languageonthemove.com/patriots-and-traitors/#comment-4678 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:31:50 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=5979#comment-4678 Dear Ingrid,

A powerful post hinting at the latent systematization of the so-called discourses of multilingualism, multiculturalism and plurality.

A close friend, a graduate civil engineer from Pakistan, emigrated to Canada for greener pastures. He discovered that there was not any relevant job for him in Canadian labor market. After some time, he was advised to do a Canadian degree in his field which he successfully completed. The new degree proved no help and he is still jobless though he still has got three job options open for him : driving cab, working as security guard or delivering pizzas.

By the way, he scored 8.5/9 on his IELTS. He says and I qoute, ‘ yeh parhay likha muzdooron ko bolaanay ka dhanda hai’. My translation, it is the business of getting literate labour for lower tier of economic system.

Systemic Problem!

Khan

]]> By: Dariush Izadi https://languageonthemove.com/patriots-and-traitors/#comment-4663 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:49:33 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=5979#comment-4663 A thought provoking blog!
That these types of people, though strongly supported by the governments and fortunately all of whom have a good command of English, are complaining about being unemployed or are feeling left out, let alone other migrants! There’s then no surprise that, to my limited knowledge, migrants’ lack of English proficiency has become a hallmark used by politicians so that they can come up with a workable and interim solution to deflect criticism made against them!

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