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Access to quality education and English intersect with economic mobility and opportunity across Southasia. Photo from Akshaya Patra Foundation via Pixabay

English as agency: Language Provides Pathways Of Mobility For Marginalized Communities

  • Oct 03, 2025

What makes the book powerful is its refusal to romanticize either side of the debate. It acknowledges that local language education, when disconnected from global opportunities, can also reproduce exclusion. But it also warns against treating English as a silver bullet, instead framing it as one tool among many for dismantling structural…

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