Learners’ plurilingual profiles, multilingual needs, and relocation plans of adult migrants in Greece and Italy

The paper describes the Italian and the Greek contexts within the more complex European migration policies framework, attempting to provide a comparative approach with regard to linguistic integration aspects. The European situation regarding language requirements and learning opportunities for adult refugees and migrants has been extensively presented in the survey (Rocca et al., 2020), including both Greece and Italy, which are explored in detail in Mouti and Rocca (2023). This paper provides more detailed information based on empirical data regarding the two countries by focusing on multilingual needs, relocation plans, and plurilingual profiles. The current paper is concerned with the language teachers’ perceptions through an online questionnaire. We explore the plurilingual profiles and needs of the learners through the eyes/voices of their teachers by considering the context(s) of language use, and certainly, relocation plans that form the migrants’ journey.