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Direct linkCarlsen, Cecilie Hamnes; Rocca, Lorenzo – Language Policy, 2022
During the past decades, migration policies in Western societies have grown stricter by the day. As part of this retrenchment, migrants are required to pass language tests to gain access to human and democratic rights such as residency, family reunification, and citizenship, as well as to enter the labour market or higher education. The use of…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Activism, Immigrants, Social Justice
Price, Gareth – Language Policy, 2020
Transitional justice (TJ) scenarios are where a society is moving from war to peace or from authoritarianism to democracy. A key goal of TJ is to balance atoning for past abuses of human rights with creating the conditions for social and political stability in the future, and this requires avoiding forms of "victor's justice" whereby one…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Sociolinguistics
Heiman, Daniel; Nuñez-Janes, Mariela – Language Policy, 2021
Two-way Bilingual Education (TWBE) programs are currently experiencing gentrification processes that are displacing the original beneficiaries of these programs. These gentrification processes have led to a whitening of bilingual education (Flores and García in Ann Rev Appl Linguist, 37:14-29, 2017) marked by inequities and the dangerous potential…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Activism, Bilingual Education, Whites
Flores, Nelson; Chaparro, Sofia – Language Policy, 2018
Language activism has been at the core of language education policy since its emergence as a scholarly field in the 1960s under the leadership of Joshua Fishman. In this article, we seek to build on this tradition to envision a new approach to language activism for the twenty-first century. In particular, we advocate a materialist anti-racist…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Usage, Activism, Social Justice
Zhongfeng Tian; Kevin M. Wong – Language Policy, 2024
This study examined how three champion principals of Asian language dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs--Cantonese, Korean, and Mandarin--in California have navigated the oscillating language-in-education policies after the Lau decision. We explored principals' various roles through a lens of agency in a social justice leadership…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Bilingual Education Programs, Asian Americans, Advocacy
Hamann, Edmund T.; Catalano, Theresa – Language Policy, 2021
Dual language (DL) programs propose to be vehicles of social justice and transformation by valuing an additional language other than the dominant one in a society and thereby contesting language hierarchies and the subordination of those who speak/use a non-dominant language (Flores, Flores, Educational Policy 30:13-38, 2016; Menken and García,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Social Justice, Native Language, Second Language Learning
