Forced migrants in Luxembourg: an LE approach to linguistic integration

This paper outlines the core contributions that a linguistic ethnography (LE) approach can make to forced migration and integration research. LE provides multiple tools for capturing the complexity and transient character of the real social environments in which forced migrants integrate. After summarising the main arguments of the literature which examines the language–displacement nexus, this contribution moves on to discuss the nature and focus of the proposed approach. It then turns to specific examples from a two-year LE research project that addressed the impact of multilingualism on forced migrants’ trajectories in Luxembourg.