Since the publication of Philippe Van Parijs' ‘Linguistic Justice’ (OUP, 2011) this research
area has grown fast, but it has systematically neglected migration-induced diversity.
Filling this lacuna, this paper expands on the logic of ‘Linguistic Justice’ and explores the
integration of migrants' mother tongue into the education system of receiving societies. It
proceeds thus. Having argued that Van Parijs' main opportunity-focused logic is no
sufficient safeguard to a monolingual end-state ...
Since the publication of Philippe Van Parijs' ‘Linguistic Justice’ (OUP, 2011) this research
area has grown fast, but it has systematically neglected migration-induced diversity.
Filling this lacuna, this paper expands on the logic of ‘Linguistic Justice’ and explores the
integration of migrants' mother tongue into the education system of receiving societies. It
proceeds thus. Having argued that Van Parijs' main opportunity-focused logic is no
sufficient safeguard to a monolingual end-state (sect. I), I present additional reasons in
favour of multilingualism (sect. II). Three paradigmatic sets of rules are discussed that can
guide multilingual societies in deciding which further language to adopt in addition to a
dominant institutional language: (a) laissez-faire, (b) territorial integration, and (c)
accommodationist interaction. I shall argue that the third option accounts best for the new
reality of migration-induced diversity and should inform concrete policies (sect. IV).
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