[Linganth] call for papers/panelists: Session on Multilingual Education in Asia (Association of Asian Studies Conference 2026)
Shannon Mary Ward
smw525 at nyu.edu
Fri Jul 18 19:14:48 UTC 2025
Dear Colleagues,
I am seeking two authors to join a panel submission for the 2026
Association of Asian Studies conference in Vancouver (March 12-15). Please
see below the panel description. If interested, please email a paper title
and abstract of 250 words to shannon.ward at ubc.ca by *July 28*.
Across Borders and Belonging: Multilingual Education and Changing
Mobilities in Asia
Transnational mobility has served as a catalyst for multilingual education
in Asia—both education in minoritized languages as well as education in
dominant global languages such as English. Despite an expansion of
multilingual education in the 21st century, however, communities across
Asia are currently grappling with government policies that shift between
promoting transnational connection and enforcing social, ethnic, and
geographic borders. In this context, how do ideologies about borders
manifest in policies for multilingual education and on-the-ground practices
in schools, homes, and communities? How do these changing policies and
practices shape the forms of belonging that mobile communities build
through their migration routes?
Through ethnographic case studies of a range of mobile communities,
including rural-to-urban migrants, diasporic communities, and refugees, our
addresses these questions by considering how multilingual education can
simultaneously promote belonging and reify borders. Papers seek to disrupt
common narratives about the relationship between multilingualism and
transnational connection, which often treat multilingualism as a
consequence of globalization despite the rapid language endangerment that
has followed from associated forms of neoliberal expansion. By analyzing
multilingual education amid changing mobilities, our panel positions Asian
migrant communities at the center of possibilities for future language
vitality and language revitalization at a moment when patterns of
transnational connection are rapidly shifting.
Best,
Shannon
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Shannon Ward
PhD Anthropology
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smw525 at nyu.edu
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