Communicating in diversity: Australian migration professionals’ interactions with their clients
Start year: 2019
Summary: With nearly a third of Australian residents born overseas, migration affects many Australians. Those seeking to migrate often rely on professional assistance to navigate complex procedural and legal requirements. This ethnographic project aims to critically examine the way lawyers and migration agents communicate Australian migration law, policies and procedures to their migrant clients and mediate their communication with immigration authorities. It therefore contributes a sociolinguistic approach to understanding migration practice, with the broader aim of promoting more equitable outcomes for prospective migrants
Publications:
Maryns, K, Smith-Khan, L & Jacobs, M 2023, 'Multilingualism in Asylum and Migration Procedures' in The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism, Routledge, pp. 394-414.
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Piller, I, Bodis, A, Butorac, D, Cho, J, Cramer, R, Farrell, E, Grey, A, Lising, L, Motaghi-Tabari, S, Smith-Khan, L, Tenedero, PP, Torsh, H, Williams Tetteh, V, Wang, Y, Abdullah, T, Bruzon, AS & Quick, B Joint Standing Committee on Migration 2023, Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration Inquiry into ‘Migration, Pathway to Nation Building', Online.
Smith-Khan, L 2022, '‘I Try Not to Be Dominant, but I’m a Lawyer!’: Advisor Resources, Context, and Refugee Credibility', Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 3710-3733.
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Grey, A & Smith-Khan, L 2021, 'Bringing linguistic research into legal scholarship and practice', Alternative Law Journal, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 64-70.
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2021, 'Griffith Law Review thematic issue: Linguistic diversity as a challenge to legal policy'.
Smith-Khan, L 2020, 'Migration practitioners’ roles in communicating credible refugee claims', Alternative Law Journal, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 119-124.
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Smith-Khan, L & Grey, A 1970, 'Developing research collaboration across law and linguistics', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Conference of the Australian and NZ Associations of von Humboldt Fellows: Sharing knowledge in the spirit of Humboldt, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Macquarie University, pp. 332-337.
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Smith-Khan, L Department of Home Affairs 2020, Submission to Review ‘Creating a world class migration advice industry’, Sydney.
Smith-Khan, L 2020, 'Five language myths about refugee credibility'.
Smith-Khan, L & Grey, A 2020, 'Linguistics meets law', Language on the Move.
Smith-Khan, L 2019, 'Communicative resources and credibility in public discourse on refugees', Language in Society, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 403-427.
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Smith-Khan, L 2019, 'Why refugee visa credibility assessments lack credibility: a critical discourse analysis', Griffith Law Review, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 406-430.
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Grey, A & Smith-Khan, L 2019, 'Language and Indigenous disadvantage'.
Smith-Khan, L & Grey, A 2019, 'Lawyers need to know more about language'.
FOR Codes: Legal Practice, Lawyering and the Legal Profession, Law and Society, Law Reform, Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession, Law and society and socio-legal research