ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the reader to reflect upon the implications that ICT has for migrants. It critiques the way that the transformational power of technology is harnessed to further nation states' own integration agendas. In these agendas, ICT has become the bed-fellow of learning the 'what' and the 'how' to become a citizen. The chapter explores a way of enabling the rapid and effective inclusion of migrants into mainstream host societies. It demonstrates the emergence of a number of features that characterise ICT and Dutch as second language learning. There is also the co-option of ICT into a particular institutional discourse. This relates to a tendency to respond to cultural and linguistic diversity and difference from the mainstream by developing a culture of drilling and control over someone's identity and someone's conduct in society.
