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Migration, Demography, and Minority Language Learning: A Case of Wales

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Migration, Demography, and Minority Language Learning: A Case of WalesThe present article discusses the role of adult migrants to Wales in the country’s demographics and maintenance and promotion of the Welsh language. The Welsh society is an ageing society, predicted in the long run to rely on immigration as a solution to the socio-economic problems of the demographic decline. At the same time, the Welsh Government (WG) is strongly invested in revitalising the Welsh language through legislation and policies. The WG acknowledges that immigration is a challenge for the Welsh language and emphasises the role of new speakers in its revitalisation and maintenance. Drawing on data from two ethnographic studies in Wales, I discuss the experiences of Polish adult migrants with Welsh, their motivations to learn it and their attitudes and ideologies towards the language. I also provide recommendations for adjustments in language planning on the micro-level.Migracja, demografia i nauka jezyków mniejszosciowych: przypadek WaliiNiniejszy artykul omawia role doroslych migrantów na terenie Walii w demografii kraju oraz w zachowaniu i promocji jezyka walijskiego. Spoleczenstwo walijskie jest spoleczenstwem starzejacym sie, co oznacza, ze zgodnie z przewidywaniami bedzie w dluzszej perspektywie polegalo na imigracji jako rozwiazaniu spoleczno-ekonomicznych problemów nizu demograficznego. Jednoczesnie rzad walijski jest mocno zaangazowany w rewitalizacje jezyka walijskiego poprzez ustawodawstwo i prowadzona polityke. Rzad przyznaje, ze imigracja stanowi wyzwanie dla jezyka walijskiego i podkresla role nowych uzytkowników w jego rewitalizacji i zachowaniu. W oparciu o dane z dwóch badan etnograficznych przeprowadzonych w Walii artykul omawia doswiadczenia doroslych imigrantów z Polski z jezykiem walijskim, ich motywacje do nauki oraz postawy i ideologie wobec jezyka. Przedstawia równiez zalecenia dotyczace korekt w planowaniu jezyka (ang. language planning) na poziomie mikro.

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