ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an insight into how Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO) is put into practice by the Dutch immigration and naturalisation authorities (IND), and focuses on the case of an Arabic-speaking Sudanese asylum seeker. Research on the societal and sociolinguistic implications of superdiversity is well on its way addressing its complexities and implications across several institutional arenas both within on and offline environments. Language ideologies are socially and culturally embedded metalinguistic conceptualisations of language and it's a form of usage. They serve nation states and their institutional ramifications such as gatekeeping institutions in setting up and maintaining national order. In official hearings, the evaluative discourses that work towards the ascription of identities are based on either the respect or trespass of situated language norms as these norms are thought to be indexical of the origin of the applicant and thus of his/her identity.
