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Mercator Internacional<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Symposium on
Minority Languages</SPAN><SPAN lang=CA
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>“Linguistics Rights as a
Social Inclusion Factor</SPAN><SPAN>”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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- 21 October 2006, Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC),
Barcelona<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><FONT size=2><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Organizer:
Mercator-Legislation, CIEMEN (Barcelona, Catalonia)</FONT></FONT></P></H1>
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<STRONG> Registration at</STRONG>: <A
href="http://www.ciemen.org/mercator/simposis/2006ML/index2006en.htm"><STRONG>http://www.ciemen.org/mercator/simposis/2006ML/index2006en.htm</STRONG></A></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2>Overview<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2>Europe has always been a multilingual land. This fact has been
accentuated in recent decades by the steady arrival and settlement on the
continent by non-Europeans who have brought their languages with them. The
current linguistic reality in Europe is, therefore, richer and more complex than
ever. The European Union -a political, economic and cultural work in progress
which has as one of its goals to put into practice the democratic principle of
uniting Europeans in respect for diversity- lives fully immersed in this
reality. In the process of its construction, the European Union has to address
issues as important as those related to immigration and the social inclusion of
immigrants from other continents, who represent in many areas a significant
percentage of the total population.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2>The languages spoken in the European Union today –those traditionally
considered <I>European</I> and those brought with immigration– are one of the
keys to making possible such "union in diversity" of all citizens, groups,
communities, and peoples that live together in Europe. To encourage such
harmony, we must ask ourselves which kind of multilingualism should the European
Union put into practice now and in the future. At the same time, it raises the
question of how the linguistic rights of immigrants and of receiving communities
can be regulated and guaranteed and, more specifically, how the exercise of
these rights could stimulate the social inclusion of newcomers who settle among
minoritized linguistic communities that share their space with majority or
dominant languages.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2>Symposium<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2>The V Mercator International Symposium will critically analyse the issues
under consideration, taking as an indispensable departure point the respect for
the rights of everyone, and will emphasize the role of language as a factor of
inclusion in European Union societies with minoritized
languages.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT
size=2>The Symposium will also present a series of practice cases for balancing
individual rights and the collective rights of speakers of both the languages of
immigration and the minoritized languages within the European Union. Moreover,
it intends to gather proposals that encourage the social cohesion of the
receiving communities while consolidating, at the same time, non-discriminatory
linguistic diversity. In such proposals, emphasis will be placed on the
legislative aspects that may contribute to the advancement of linguistic
rights.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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information, do not hesitate to contact us.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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keep up your good work!!</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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