[Linganth] Call for Papers: Pandemic Pressures on Linguistic Diversity: Rethinking Migrant and Minority Language Maintenance and Education After COVID-19

[Vladislava Warditz]

*Call for Papers | Research Topic in /Frontiers in Education: "/Pandemic 
Pressures on Linguistic Diversity: Rethinking Migrant and Minority 
Language Maintenance and Education After COVID-19"*

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to the Research Topic *“Pandemic Pressures on 
Linguistic Diversity: Rethinking Migrant and Minority Language 
Maintenance and Education After COVID-19”* in the journal /Frontiers in 
Education/.

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly transformed educational systems, social 
interaction, and language practices worldwide. For migrant and minority 
language communities in particular, the shift to remote learning, 
reduced community contact, and disruptions in transnational mobility 
created new challenges for language maintenance, intergenerational 
transmission, and access to multilingual education. At the same time, 
new digital spaces and forms of communication have reshaped the ways in 
which linguistic diversity is practiced and negotiated.

This Research Topic seeks to explore how the pandemic and its aftermath 
have affected linguistic diversity, language maintenance, and 
educational practices among migrant and minority language communities. 
We welcome contributions that address these transformations from a wide 
range of disciplinary perspectives.

We particularly encourage *anthropological and ethnographic studies* 
that provide in-depth insights into language practices, community 
responses, and lived experiences of multilingualism during and after the 
pandemic. Qualitative approaches, including linguistic ethnography, 
educational ethnography, and community-based research, are especially 
welcome, alongside quantitative, policy-oriented, and mixed-methods studies.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

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    Migrant and minority language maintenance during and after the pandemic

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    Multilingual education in times of crisis

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    Language practices in digital and remote learning environments

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    Community-based language initiatives and grassroots responses

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    Family language policy and intergenerational transmission

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    Linguistic ethnographies of pandemic-era communication

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    Language policy and linguistic inequalities in education

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    Post-pandemic transformations of multilingual learning spaces

Further information about the Research Topic, including submission 
guidelines and deadlines, can be found here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/76379/pandemic-pressures-on-linguistic-diversity-rethinking-migrant-and-minority-language-maintenance-and-education-after-covid-19

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Requests for fee support are assessed individually, and *applying for 
support does not influence editorial decisions*.

We warmly encourage scholars working on multilingualism, migration, 
education, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related fields 
to contribute to this collection.

We look forward to your submissions and to advancing the discussion on 
linguistic diversity in the post-pandemic world.

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Vladislava Warditz, PD Dr. phil. habil.

/Slavic Studies/ University of Cologne/

Guest Editor, */International Journal of Bilingualism/*

Guest Editor, */Languages /*

Guest Editor, */Frontiers in Education/*

Associate Editor, */Frontiers in Education/*(Section: Language, Culture, 
Diversity)

_Website:_https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladislava-Warditz 
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladislava-Warditz>

Warditz, V. (2025). /The Czech language in the USA after 1918: Father 
John B. Dudek’s “migrant studies”./ 
*/Revue/**//**/des/**/é/**/tudes/**//**/slaves/*/, XCVI-3 | 2025/, 
455-473, https://doi.org/10.4000/15hpt <https://doi.org/10.4000/15hpt>

Warditz, V. (2025). /Towards a typology of (post)imperial borrowings: 
Russianisms in Latvian slang/. In: */Proceedings of the V.V. Vinogradov 
Russian Language Institute/*, 2025, 4 (46), 10-31 
10.31912/pvrli-2025.4.1 <https://doi.org/10.31912/pvrli-2025.4.1>

Warditz, V., Kazkenova, A. & Berturganova, Zh. (2026). /Aspectuality and 
Nativeness in Kazakh: Exploring the reversal language shift within a 
bilingual context of Kazakhstan/. */International Journal of 
Bilingualism/*, 10.1177/13670069261424674

Warditz, V. (2026). /Modelling Postcolonial Transferred Bilingualism: 
Russian in Multilingual Post-Soviet Diasporas/. */International Journal 
of Bilingualism/*. 10.1177/13670069261419590

Warditz, V. (2026). /Russian in Germany: Variation trends across 
generations/. In: Baranova, V., & Fedorova, K. (eds.): */Decentralized 
variants of Russian and their speakers: World Russians/*. Routledge. 
[forthcoming]



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