Description du projet
Écouter les voix des migrants en Europe
Sur un continent connu pour sa diversité linguistique, l’adhésion de l’UE au multilinguisme contraste fortement avec les idéologies nationalistes dominantes qui promeuvent souvent la normalisation des langues. Les migrants et leurs descendants qui s’écartent de la norme linguistique font souvent l’objet d’une discrimination injuste, avec de profondes conséquences sociales, économiques et politiques. L’Espagne, en particulier dans les régions monolingues comme Madrid, illustre cette lutte pour la normativité linguistique. Avec le soutien du programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet MigrantVoices mettra en lumière des cas où les voix des migrants, généralement inaudibles, ont influencé le discours public, remettant en cause les préjugés linguistiques. En utilisant l’ethnographie et des méthodes participatives, MigrantVoices crée une ressource précieuse, favorisant l’inclusion et la participation dans les sociétés européennes et promouvant des pratiques linguistiques plus justes.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
28049 Madrid
Espagne