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T1 Citizenship as an instrument of inclusion and exclusion – A comparative analysis of language requirements in naturalization processes in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
A1 Škifić, Sanja
K1 Citizenship
K1 Language requirements
K1 Inclusion
K1 Exclusion
K1 Language policy
K1 Immigrants
K1 Nacionalidad
K1 Requisitos lingüísticos
K1 Inclusión
K1 Exclusión
K1 Política lingüística
K1 Inmigrantes
K1 Lingüística
K1 Linguistics
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Citizenship is an extremely complex concept and, as such, can beutilized in sociolinguistic research in order to account for differencesin language policies. Language requirements in naturalizationprocesses point to differences in particular countries’ languagepolicies. Specifi cally, analysis of such language requirements revealsthe different facets of the countries’ language policies in terms ofthe ways in which applicants for citizenship via naturalization areexpected to know and use the countries’ offi cial language(s) or themain language (in cases where there is no offi cial language). Thepaper aims to address changes in such language requirements infour immigration countries which are bound by a specifi c pastassociated with colonialism and the fact that English is the mediumof communication for the majority of the population. The countriesare: the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Acomparison of past and current language requirements provides aninsight into both past and current status of immigrants and theirlanguages in the four countries. This, in turn, leads to assessmentsof citizenship increasingly being regarded more as an instrument ofinclusion rather than as an instrument of exclusion.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 1889-5425
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/19554
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/19554
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 28-abr-2024