The discourse on immigrant integration among teachers in two settlement programs

This study compares the immigrant integration discourses of nine English as a Second Language (ESL) language settlement teachers in the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program in Toronto-area schools and nine French as a Second Language (FSL) language settlement teachers in the Programme d'integration linguistique pour les immigrants (PILI) [Linguistic Integration program for Immingrants] in Montreal-area schools.

This study is framed by a comparative analysis of Canadian and Quebec immigration and integration programs and language settlement programs. This works seeks to understand how the official discourses of multiculturalism and interculturalism are reproduced or resisted in the discourses of these eighteen participants.