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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Increasing literacy amongst migrants

Increasing literacy amongst migrants

  • Advancing literacy of ethnic minorities

Broader

Increasing literacy
Excellent
Improving protection for linguistic minorities
Unpresentable
Supporting migrants
Yet to rate
Promoting welfare of persons belonging to minorities
Yet to rate

Constrains

Segregating through language
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Promoting use of English as common global language
Unpresentable
Supporting lesser used languages in Europe
Yet to rate
Promoting integration of migrants
Yet to rate
Integrating ethnic groups
Yet to rate
Improving minority self-image
Yet to rate
Recovering sleeping languages
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Defending black colleges
Unpresentable
Using libraries to promote literacy
Yet to rate
Introducing adult literacy classes
Yet to rate

Problem

Underprivileged linguistic minorities
Presentable
Segregation through language
Presentable
Lack of appropriate education for children of immigrants
Presentable
Inadequate education for nomadic children
Presentable
Illiteracy among indigenous peoples
Presentable
Denial of rights of ethnic minorities
Presentable
Lack of education for women immigrants
Yet to rate

Value

Illiteracy
Yet to rate

Reference

Coulmas, Florian: Linguistic Minorities and Literacy: language policy issues in developing countries

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #4: Quality EducationSustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced Inequality

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(E) Emanations of other strategies
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J0415
DOCID
12004150
D7NID
194007
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/increasing-literacy-amongst-migrants
Last update
Dec 2, 2022