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A Study on Emergency Language Services for Burmese Migrants in Sino-Burmese Border Areas:A Case Study of Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province

  

  • Online:2024-09-15 Published:2024-09-26

Abstract:

Due to many ports and dense passages, the Dehong section of the China-Myanmar border areas has frequent entry and exit
of cross-border migrants, with a large number of migrant workers, businessmen, students, relatives, friends, cross-border marriages, it is difficult to control the "illegal entry, overstaying and employments of foreigners". In addition, because of the multi-ethnic and multilingual characteristics of Myanmar, as well as their limited Chinese communication skills, they are likely to become a language vulnerable group in border areas. Based on the emergency language service measures provided by the media and universities in Dehong Prefecture during the COVID-19, this paper puts forward the suggestions as the following: to design the top-level of emergency language service for Myanmar migrants, to strengthen the research on their present language use and the construction of the corpus, to deepen the talent reserve mechanism of emergency language service in Yunnan Province, to actively promote the popularization of "concise Chinese" and to promote the cooperation between China and Myanmar to build a community of human destiny.

Key words: Sino-Burmese border, Dehong Prefecture, Myanmar cross-border migrants, emergency language services