Linguistic human rights and mobility

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-338

  Wee, Lionel ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Globalisation; Language rights; Singlish; Social language

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249144468     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jmmd492.0     Document Type: Article

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