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Call for Papers
Theme: Linguistic Rights and Duties of Migrants
Subtitle: Norms and Practices
Type: Interdisciplinary Workshop
Institution: KU Leuven
Location: Leuven (Belgium)
Date: 23.–24.9.2019
Deadline: 7.4.2019
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What are the linguistic rights and duties of migrants in liberal
democracies? By looking into the empirical practices and normative
debates regarding linguistic rights and duties of migrants, we intend
for this workshop to shed light on the connection between migration
and linguistic justice.
Some historically present minority groups in liberal democracies have
been granted linguistic-cultural rights as protection against
assimilation. Migrants, on the other hand, are largely excluded from
such rights. Instead, they are required to fulfil cultural-linguistic
conditions in order to access social, political and economic rights,
residency and/or citizenship. The debates of linguistic justice
largely circulate around historical or territorial minorities, and
leave migrants out of the discussion, while migration scholarship
rarely focuses on questions of linguistic justice. This
interdisciplinary workshop aims to connect research between migration
and linguistic justice through the synthesis of the theoretical,
empirical and practical approaches to the topic.
Potential Questions
* Participation:
- What is just to require from a migrant in terms of language?
- What enables migrants' learning of a state's official language(s)?
* Representation/Recognition
- How should a migrant's original language be recognized in the host
country?
- What are current and proposed practices of recognition?
* Multilingual states:
- Do multilingual states have different considerations than
monolingual states in respect to linguistic rights of migrants by
virtue of being multilingual?
- In what ways, if any, should state language policies differ
between migrants and non migrants in multilingual states?
* Temporality:
- Does a migrant's status as temporary resident, or does the length
a migrant has been in the country, change their linguistic rights
or duties?
* Territoriality:
- What challenges do territorially/regionally delimited systems of
linguistic governance pose for migrants in multilingual states,
e.g. with regards to intra-state mobility?
- What forms of non-territorial linguistic governance can be
developed/imagined in an era of increased mobility and
urbanization?
Workshop information
Through these questions, we want to open a transdisciplinary space
where empirical and theoretical considerations incorporated across
disciplines facilitated by researchers from a diverse set of fields.
To that end, this workshop will follow a 'non-standard' format in
that it will be problem oriented with a focus on improving each
other's work and exposing your work to the perspectives of other
disciplines approaches and considerations. Early career scholars are
encouraged to apply.
There is no participation fee but participants are to cover their own
travel and accommodation expenses.
To submit a proposal, send [email protected] the following two
separate documents by April 7th 2019:
1. Your name, academic affiliation and email address. Please name
this document: "[the title of your paper] - 1";
2. The title of your paper and an abstract no more than 500 words.
Please name this document: "[the title of your paper] - 2". This
document should be prepared for blind review (do not include your
name or any other identifying information in this document).
Applicants will be notified of their acceptance to the workshop by
May 1st 2019.
Keynotes
Philippe Van Parijs (UC Louvain)
Helder De Schutter (KU Leuven)
For further information please contact:
- Nina Carlsson (Södertörn University)
Email: [email protected]
- Camille Pascal (UCLouvain)
Email: [email protected]
- Colin Rowe (KULeuven)
Email: [email protected]
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