"heritage seekers"?

[Rebecca Matveyev]

Today for the first time I heard someone use the term "heritage
seekers," in reference to students who are not native speakers of a
language, and who have in fact had no exposure at any point to the
language, but whose ancestors were native speakers of a language, and
who therefore choose to study that language.  The specific example
concerned students in Canada whose grandparents or great-grandparents
are Ukrainian, but who never spoke or heard the language themselves, but
now are choosing to connect with their roots by studying Ukrainian.

Is this an actual established term that's in use, by analogy with
"heritage speakers"?  Or was this just a neologism?

Thanks,
Rebecca

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Rebecca Epstein Matveyev
Assistant Professor of Russian
Lawrence University
115 S. Drew St.
Appleton, WI 54912
(920) 832-6710
matveyer at lawrence.edu

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