ABSTRACT
As populations in migrant-receiving countries become more diverse, so does their de facto linguistic landscape. But official policies seldom change and national languages reign supreme in almost every domain. Against this backdrop, this chapter contends that measurements of wellbeing and subsequent policy developments aimed at inclusive growth and wellbeing for all need to be reconsidered. Notably, migrants’ particular needs and experiences, of which language is integral yet understudied, should be taken into account. A framework to examine the multi-dimensional wellbeing (affective, cognitive, eudaimonic) of migrants from a language perspective will be proposed. This chapter demonstrates how this is applied to a mixed-method empirical study to address the objectives set out in this book’s introduction.
