Anna Malandrino - Migrant Languages in Education: Problems, Policies, and Politics

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This book originates from its authors interest in language policy and migrant integration and from an awareness of the importance of public policies as instruments able to shape social phenomena. It is the result of circa three years of research at the intersection between the policy sciences and the applied linguistics domain, and it has been preceded by the publication by the author herself of several academic articles on migrant language -in- education policies , as well as on related aspects of education, such as teacher training and education policy instruments.

The research design and results that form the contents of this books chapters have been discussed in numerous academic fora, including the Center for European Studies of Harvard University, where the author was a visiting scholar in 2019 and had the opportunity to refine the ideas at the core of this book. Both the methods employed in the underlying research and the findings obtained have been the subject of further presentations at conferences, workshops, and hybrid events in which both practitioners (e.g., policymakers and educators) and academics were involved. The debate that stemmed from each of these eventsa list of which would be too long to provide herecontributed to shaping this book.

The title is indicative of a specific theoretical choice: the book adopts the Multiple Streams Framework because the authors interest was to explain why certain countries adopted innovative policies that value migrant languages in education while othersincluding the authors homelanddid not. But the book also has another goal: it aims to shed light on a topic that, being on the margins of mainstream political interest, has been so far neglected by the policy sciences. The topic at the heart of this bookthat is, migrant languages and their preservation through educational interventionshas mostly been the subject, so far, of sociolinguistic and pedagogic studies. If we consider that there are countries that are pioneers in Europe in the preservation of these languages through school educationfor example, Austria or Swedenintroducing this topic into the policy discourse has the value of trying to raise interest in an important topic that can have implications for the well-being not only of migrants but also of the host society and to possibly activate cross-country learning processes.