Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas

Most analyses of the sociolinguistic aspects of immigration focus on contexts where a single language is official and widely used. In bilingual Catalonia, newly arriving immigrants find themselves in a situation where the administration seeks to treat Catalan as a fully functional public language wh...

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Autor: Pujolar, Joan
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Data de publicação:2009
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositório:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
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Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/109007
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Palavra-chave:immigration
multilingualism
nationalism
Catalonia
multilingüismo
inmigración
nacionalismo
Cataluña
multilingüisme
immigració
nacionalisme
Catalunya
Catalan language -- Social aspects
Català -- Aspectes socials
Catalán -- Aspectos sociales
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spelling Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendasPujolar, JoanimmigrationmultilingualismnationalismCataloniamultilingüismoinmigraciónnacionalismoCataluñamultilingüismeimmigraciónacionalismeCatalunyaCatalan language -- Social aspectsCatalà -- Aspectes socialsCatalán -- Aspectos socialesMost analyses of the sociolinguistic aspects of immigration focus on contexts where a single language is official and widely used. In bilingual Catalonia, newly arriving immigrants find themselves in a situation where the administration seeks to treat Catalan as a fully functional public language while large sectors of the local population still treat it as a minority language not adequate to be spoken to strangers. Popular language practices and discourses often seem to suggest that Catalan serves to assert identity while Spanish serves for practical communicative purposes, thus contradicting the official narratives over language and integration. Thus, what we find is that immigrants are required to adjust to different, competing, often blatantly contradictory linguistic ideologies and practices. In this article, I will seek to describe these contradictions and historical changes together with their implications for the local political economy of intergroup relations. I begin with a brief theoretical grounding of the concepts uses. To this follows a historical account of educational language policies addressed to immigrants since the mid-1980s. A change in official discourses from language as national symbol to language as a means for social cohesion is documented. Language policies are contrasted with ethnographic data on linguistic practices in everyday life in various settings. To conclude, I reflect on the significance of these phenomena for a general understanding of the role of languages in the construction of social difference in contemporary societies.Linguistics and Education: An International Research JournalUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)202020202009info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10609/109007reponame:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOCinstname:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)InglésLinguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010, 21(3)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2009.10.004info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/BFF2001-2576//CC BY-NC-NDhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/1090072026-05-28T12:42:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
title Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
spellingShingle Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
Pujolar, Joan
immigration
multilingualism
nationalism
Catalonia
multilingüismo
inmigración
nacionalismo
Cataluña
multilingüisme
immigració
nacionalisme
Catalunya
Catalan language -- Social aspects
Català -- Aspectes socials
Catalán -- Aspectos sociales
title_short Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
title_full Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
title_fullStr Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
title_full_unstemmed Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
title_sort Immigration and language education in Catalonia: between national and social agendas
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pujolar, Joan
author Pujolar, Joan
author_facet Pujolar, Joan
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv immigration
multilingualism
nationalism
Catalonia
multilingüismo
inmigración
nacionalismo
Cataluña
multilingüisme
immigració
nacionalisme
Catalunya
Catalan language -- Social aspects
Català -- Aspectes socials
Catalán -- Aspectos sociales
topic immigration
multilingualism
nationalism
Catalonia
multilingüismo
inmigración
nacionalismo
Cataluña
multilingüisme
immigració
nacionalisme
Catalunya
Catalan language -- Social aspects
Català -- Aspectes socials
Catalán -- Aspectos sociales
description Most analyses of the sociolinguistic aspects of immigration focus on contexts where a single language is official and widely used. In bilingual Catalonia, newly arriving immigrants find themselves in a situation where the administration seeks to treat Catalan as a fully functional public language while large sectors of the local population still treat it as a minority language not adequate to be spoken to strangers. Popular language practices and discourses often seem to suggest that Catalan serves to assert identity while Spanish serves for practical communicative purposes, thus contradicting the official narratives over language and integration. Thus, what we find is that immigrants are required to adjust to different, competing, often blatantly contradictory linguistic ideologies and practices. In this article, I will seek to describe these contradictions and historical changes together with their implications for the local political economy of intergroup relations. I begin with a brief theoretical grounding of the concepts uses. To this follows a historical account of educational language policies addressed to immigrants since the mid-1980s. A change in official discourses from language as national symbol to language as a means for social cohesion is documented. Language policies are contrasted with ethnographic data on linguistic practices in everyday life in various settings. To conclude, I reflect on the significance of these phenomena for a general understanding of the role of languages in the construction of social difference in contemporary societies.
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