Bilingualism or Not: The Education of Minorities

This book deals with Bilingualism, particularly as it relates to migrant minorities and indigenous peoples. People from (linguistic) minorities often have to become multilingual in order to cope in the larger society, while majority representatives may voluntarily become Bilingual. The book begins with a "purely" linguistic coverage of Bilingualism and then deals with the prerequisites and consequences of Bilingualism from the perspectives of psychology and pedagogy. It then moves on from the family and the school to international comparisons of societies with different minority policies. It also analyses controversies about the education of migrant minorities and indigenous people and places them in the wider political context.