Studies on language and migration: Towards ‘migration linguistics’ 17 Ariane Macalinga Borlongan The early expansion of archaic humans in and out of Africa dates back to million years ago, yet human migration remains a contemporary and relevant issue in the globalizing society today. Indeed, the present movement of peoples plays a very important role in redefining the make up of the world and, truly, migration is an integral part of human progress in the present times that cannot be overemphasized. While the percentage of international migrants in the world population in 2019 remains a very small portion of the whole at 3.5% (or 272 million), this percentage has gone beyond the predictions for 2050 (International Organization for Migration, 2019). People migrate for various social, economic, political, and educational reasons. Whatever the reason is, language has remained a most crucial factor in the integration of migrants in their destination countries. The ability to communicate to people in the receiving society is vital in the success of the move from their origin countries to their destination countries. The International Organization Migration (2019) says it well: “Language is considered one of the most central aspects for migrants’ inclusion by both the receiving society and migrants themselves” (p. 192). That communication through language has been very important to the lives of migrants has not escaped the notice of scholars. And while language is primarily the affairs of linguists, scholars of various persuasions themselves have contributed to the growing body of knowledge on migration linguistics. Proofs of this are the anthology (Piller, 2016) and handbook