Or presents at conference on multilingualism and migration

Asst. Prof. Elsie Marie Or is presenting her paper on “Contextual Factors in Heritage Language Maintenance among Filipino Migrant Families in Italy” at the Conference on Multilingualism and Migration: Mobility and Linguistic Identity. The conference is held at the University of Genoa, Italy from 15 to 17 September 2025.

The conference aims to stimulate scholarly dialogue on linguistic adaptation in migration, multilingual speakers/writers, migrant narratives, attitudes towards multilingual migrants or multilingualism, the role of (social) media in the context of multilingualism in migration, formal and informal educational language support, and the role of education in maintaining people’s heritage/first language(s).