ABSTRACT
Migration for purposes of work or another way of living (for better or worse) usually requires that those immigrants find employment to facilitate, at a basic level, survival, but more positively, settlement into the community and broader society. Working within what is often a different linguistic, cultural, ethnic, religious, geographical, historical, national and local context often requires new forms of interaction, both for the incomer and those already established at the site of the encounter. This situation requires that interlocutors must (re) negotiate and (re)evaluate their ways of communicating, identifications and positions of power to accommodate new and sometimes different communication practices within the workplace. Yet, the nature of these workplace intercultural communication experiences,
especially from the perspectives of immigrants themselves as they have been supported through a work-placement programme, has been little investigated or reported in the literature.
