TY - JOUR
T1 - Linguistic justice and the challenge of immigration
AU - Milioni, Anna
AU - Pappas, Athanasios
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Matteo Bonotti, Nina Carlsson and Colin Rowe, as well as the two anonymous reviewers, for their valuable comments on our paper. We are also grateful to all the participants of the international workshop ?Linguistic Rights and Duties of Migrants? that took place at the KU Leuven, for their inspiring ideas on the topic.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - The contemporary conditions of migration and transnational mobility raise important questions regarding linguistic justice. Immigrants and national populations claim to have multiple and often conflicting linguistic entitlements. In this paper, we account for a fair allocation of linguistic rights in this migratory context. First, we distinguish between instrumental and non-instrumental language interests, and we argue against the position that linguistic rights can be waived upon migration. Then, we examine two popular approaches of linguistic justice: the linguistic territoriality approach and the linguistic personality approach. As we demonstrate, these approaches present shortcomings when dealing with the linguistic claims of immigrants, failing to accommodate important aspects of their interests. We argue that the fair accommodation of these interests requires the recognition of English as an official national language, by virtue of its role as the global lingua franca. We then try to dispel some objections that could be raised against our approach.
AB - The contemporary conditions of migration and transnational mobility raise important questions regarding linguistic justice. Immigrants and national populations claim to have multiple and often conflicting linguistic entitlements. In this paper, we account for a fair allocation of linguistic rights in this migratory context. First, we distinguish between instrumental and non-instrumental language interests, and we argue against the position that linguistic rights can be waived upon migration. Then, we examine two popular approaches of linguistic justice: the linguistic territoriality approach and the linguistic personality approach. As we demonstrate, these approaches present shortcomings when dealing with the linguistic claims of immigrants, failing to accommodate important aspects of their interests. We argue that the fair accommodation of these interests requires the recognition of English as an official national language, by virtue of its role as the global lingua franca. We then try to dispel some objections that could be raised against our approach.
KW - Political Science and International Relations
KW - Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
KW - Geography, Planning and Development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122882927&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/nana.12798
DO - 10.1111/nana.12798
M3 - Article
SN - 1354-5078
VL - 28
SP - 402
EP - 417
JO - NATIONS AND NATIONALISM
JF - NATIONS AND NATIONALISM
IS - 2
ER -
