ILCAA Joint Research Project

Heritage languages and identities in a time of divisions and mobility (jrp000295)

Keywords

• migrants
• mobility
• migration
• heritage languages
• ethnic identities
• sociolinguistics
• COVID-19

Areas

• Europe
• West Asia
• Central Asia
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• East Asia
• North / Northeast Asia
• Oceania Pacific
• North America /the Caribbean
• South America

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2024–March, 2027

The social situation of migrants and the state of immigration studies have altered due to recent political instability and the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic: protective pressure against immigrants, division and decreased interaction between diasporas and people in the homeland, and new ties established by the internet. This project discusses theoretical and methodological issues to analyze the relationship among these phenomena, heritage languages, and identities within a contemporary context, exploring the potential and boundaries of the research.

Members

Coordinator

• Mayumi ADACHI

ILCAA Staff

• Norikazu KOGURA (Co-Coordinator)

Joint Researchers

• Rika YAMASHITA (Co-Coordinator)
• Yasuhiro ARAI
• Sachiyo Fujita-Round
• Takaya HAYASHI
• Tooru HAYASI
• Junko HIBIYA
• Fumiya HIRATAKA
• Yuri KIMURA
• John C. Maher
• Kazuko MATSUMOTO
• Naoki OGOSHI
• Akiko OKUMURA
• Daniel Quintero García
• Mizuki SAKURAMA
• Rei SUGIURA
• Joy TANIGUCHI
• WANG Yiqiong
• Sachi YOSHIDA

Outputs

Meetings

DDDLing Forum／The 2nd meeting／The 36th Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages

• Date/Time: Thu 19 Dec 2024 14:00–17:10
• Venue: 303, Online meeting
• Language: English

• 14:00–15:00 All participants

  Business meeting within the Joint Research Project members (closed)

  15:00–15:30

  Break

  (15:20 Doors open)

  15:30–15:40 Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA)

  Introduction

  15:40–17:10 Francesco Goglia (University of Exeter)

  “Onward migration and heritage languages: the case of ‘new Italians’ in the UK”

  For details, please see here.

The 1st meeting／The 35th Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 28 Sep 2024 10:30–15:30
• Venue: 303, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese, English

• 10:30–11:10 All participants

  Business meeting within the Joint Research Project members (closed)

  11:10–13:00

  Break (12:50 Doors open)

  13:00–13:10 Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA)

  Introduction

  13:10–14:00 Roi Sawm SUMLUT (Temple University, Japan Campus), Seunghun J. LEE (International Christian University)

  “Attitudes Towards Kachin Language as a Heritage Language Among Kachin People in Japan”

  14:00–14:10

  Break

  14:10–15:00 Rika YAMASHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanto Gakuin University)

  “Recent demographic change in the Pakistani community in Japan: What can linguists do?”

  15:00–15:30 All participants

  Discussion

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