New Minorities and Linguistic Diversity: Some Reflections from the Spanish and Basque Perspectives
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 21 pages, pdf Description: Linguistic plurality challenges multicultural policies as do religious or cultural diversity. Democratic management of linguistic differences happens to be one of the most difficult tasks of the current multicultural policies, since the western states still heavily remain on identities shaped by languages. Today‟s migratory flows tend to emphasize the traditional linguistic diversity of some societies. The confluence of traditional and new linguistic diversity in some plural societies (for example, Canada, Spain, Italy or Belgium) creates new kinds of problems regarding the balance between the promotion of native languages and the acceptance of immigrants‟ languages in the public space.