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Undertaking Deleuzean experimentations in educational research requires a transformation of what it is to do research. After describing one such becoming, this article considers the potentialities of Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT), which draws on concepts created by Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, for thinking differently about policy and practice in a federally-funded adult immigrant language program in Canada. A rhizoanalytic cartography of vignettes selected from a qualitative study conducted in two immigrant language classrooms focuses on teacher and student perceptions of being and becoming-Canadian in a multicultural context. Viewed through the lens of MLT, this rhizoanalysis suggests that there is much more going on in the program than its mandate to 'orient newcomers to the Canadian way of life' might imply. The article goes on to discuss potential lines of flight in adult immigrant language programs for the transformation of policy and practice.The name of Gilles Deleuze has been far from familiar in educational research; however, that is changing. Responding to the tendencies of educational policy and practice to move in increasingly striated spaces -spaces characterized by standardized curricula and testing, accountability, and progress -more and more educational theorists and researchers are experimenting with Deleuze's philosophical concepts, seeking to open smooth spaces that allow for difference and change (see

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Immigration for Australia and Canada is critical to sustain economic growth. Each country's immigration policy stems from its vision of a nation that includes the role of language and literacy and a program of economic outcomes. While the authors acknowledge that economic integration through employment dominates immigration policies in Canada and Australia, the goal of this article is to critically examine and map how language and literacies in an immigration policy are positioned in relation to economic outcomes in neo-liberal times. Questions flowing from the article's objective are: what does immigration produce, and what is its effect on how language and literacies are legitimated? The questions explore how capitalism decodes immigration, language and literacy, and in turn how immigration, language and literacies reterritorialize/reconfigure in the context of human and economic capital. These questions are taken up in an assemblage that includes Deleuze and Guattari's writings on capitalism and deploys multiple literacies theory to read capitalism, immigration, language and literacy in the context of immigration policies prevailing in Australia and Canada. These two countries offer an interesting entry point for rhizomatic analysis since Canada's government has, in recent years, been actively investigating Australia's policies and their effectiveness in the successful integration of newcomers. Mapping a politicized reading of the immigration-language-literacy policy assemblage and questioning how this assemblage reconfigures is important as global migration intensifies around the world.