This non-research conceptual paper, containing reprints of six existing literature and a developed framework, is aimed at international readership, a field arguably the center of language-communication studies for asylum seekers and urban refugees. This engaging article provides revealing insights into daily language and communication practices among urban refugees in Thailand. It includes basic entries for those unfamiliar with a given topic, contextualizing the work for the twenty-first century during the age of globalization particularly in regard to diasporic asylum seeking and...