Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe

This collection examines the learning and teaching of minority languages for adult migrants in Europe, with studies featuring perspectives from adult migrants themselves as well as local authorities, teachers, education planners and representatives from working life. The volume provides context on the attitudes and ideologies which inform adult migrant language education in different minority languages in Europe. Adult migrant language learners are understood here as newcomers settling and living in regions where the minority language is politically acknowledged and societally significant. The studies presented in the chapters are all original, and most are based on qualitative data such as interviews, ethnographic observations and policy documents. Some authors draw upon census and register data and surveys. The book is designed to be relatable to policy formation and implementation in other national contexts, in Europe and beyond. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in language education, language and migration, language and mobility, minority language studies, language policy and linguistic ethnography, as well as language policy professionals.

James Simpson is Professor in the Division of Humanities at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Sari Pöyhönen is Professor at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Contents Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Adult Migrants Learning Minority Languages in Europe: An Introduction Sari Pöyhönen and James Simpson 2. The Absence of Indigenous languages in Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish immigrant introduction Programmes Nina Carlsson 3. Learning Swedish in Contexts of Migration to Finland Linda Bäckman and Saara Haapamäki 4. The Situated Nature of Investment in Language Learning: The Case of Two New Speakers of Faroese Anna-Elisabeth Holm 5. Can Frisian Cure? The Role of Frisian Language Policy and Education in Migrant Healthcare Professionals' Integration in Fryslân Charlie Robinson-Jones, Ydwine R. Scarse and Joana Duarte 6. Developing Personal Integration Projects Through a Welsh Language Provision for Adult Migrants in Wales Gwennan Higham 7. Adult Migrant Learners of Irish: An Exploration of Motivational Factors Colin J. Flynn 8. Adult Migrants' Investment When Learning a Minoritised Language: Challenges and Opportunities In The Basque Country Maria Orcasitas-Vicandi, Gorka Roman-Etxebarrieta and Alexia Antzaka 9. Boundary-Maintenance and Unwillingness to Learn Catalan: Ideologies of Multilingualism Among Hungarians in Catalonia Gergely Szabó 10. Afterword Martha Bigelow Index