Descripción del proyecto
Escuchar las voces de los migrantes en Europa
En un continente conocido por su diversidad lingüística, la apuesta de la Unión Europea por el multilingüismo contrasta con las ideologías nacionalistas imperantes, que a menudo promueven la normalización de las lenguas. Los migrantes y sus descendientes que se desvían de la norma lingüística se enfrentan con frecuencia a una injusta discriminación, con profundas consecuencias sociales, económicas y políticas. España, especialmente en regiones monolingües como Madrid, ejemplifica esta lucha hacia la normatividad lingüística. El equipo del proyecto MigrantVoices, que cuenta con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, aportará información nueva sobre casos en los que las voces de los migrantes, que no suelen escucharse, han influido en el discurso público, lo que desafía los prejuicios lingüísticos. Mediante el uso de métodos etnográficos y participativos, en MigrantVoices se crea un valioso recurso que fomenta la inclusión y la participación en las sociedades europeas y promueve prácticas lingüísticas más justas.
Objetivo
While linguistic diversity is promoted at the supranational level by the European Union policies, standardization and homogenization still prevail at the national level in most European countries in alignment with the one state - one language nationalistic ideology. In this context, any speaker who deviates from the standard norm, in particular, migrants and their descendants are often misrecognized as linguistically deficient. A discriminatory process that entails social, economic, and political consequences. The case of Spain is paradigmatic, given the attested pressure towards normativity in the dominant variety of Castilian Spanish, especially in monolingual regions like Madrid. Drawing on interdisciplinarity, this project, MigrantVoices, aims to address this issue and open paths for social transformation. The project will provide and analyze examples of instances in which migrant voices – usually unheard– have reached domains of public influence in society and have managed to challenge and transform the linguistic prejudices that affect them. These instances of speaking out against linguistic discrimination coming from migrant communities have been deeply analyzed in the US but have not yet been studied in the European context. To analyze these initiatives, this action proposes an innovative change in perspective by focusing on artistic and cultural spaces which influence social practices and beliefs, and which have yet to be explored. Drawing on ethnography and participatory methods, this project will provide an analyzed corpus of successful experiences. This will contribute to generating public knowledge on the possibilities to foster immigrants’ inclusion and participation in European societies, which is one of the EU’s political priorities for 2021-2027. In doing so, MigrantVoices will also raise awareness of the role of language in discriminative processes, and promote fairer individual, social and institutional approaches to language.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
28049 Madrid
España