CRCAO member - TBACT Team
Charlotte Willis-Jones
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Thesis : “Be like water”: integration and resistance strategies of Tibetan immigrants in Paris
Directed by Charles Ramble
Presentation
After having worked as a language teacher for almost 20 years, with experience in the field of immigration, as well as having accumulated a number of extra languages in that time, I am fascinated by the everyday, ongoing negotiations that occur in multilingual minds, and to what extent the language we are using affects the emotions we are able to access and perform. My work investigates how emotion and language work together, based on the hypothesis that emotional investment forms part of the mechanism behind integration for immigrant groups.
I focus currently on the Tibetan diaspora in Paris, to see how and why they are choosing to integrate (or not) into French society.
Research thematics
- Emotion
- Language
- Code-mixing
- Acculturation
- Adjustment to change
- Mechanisms behind normalisation
- France
- Tibet
- Immigration
- Multilingualism
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