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Tag Archives: Human rights
Muslims, Catholics, foreign language speakers and other traitors
The 2011 Report Freedom of Religion and Belief in 21st Century Australia released this week by the Australian Human Rights Commission notes “high levels of unprompted expressions of concern about Muslims” (p. 71). In the 2006 census, 1.7% of the … Continue reading
Posted in Language, migration & social justice
Tagged Australia, Gaelic, Human rights, Islam, Language and religion, Social inclusion
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Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?
In his recent post “Accent and History,” Khan asked whether it’s possible to escape the prison of our accent and our language. Looking at the civil war and humanitarian disaster that is currently raging in and around the city of … Continue reading
Accent and history
This is the story of a young Pakistani man, let’s call him Reza. Reza spent his early years in what was then East-Pakistan and what is today a different country, Bangladesh. Reza’s family were Muslims from Bihar, who at the … Continue reading
Posted in Language, migration & social justice, Recent Posts
Tagged accent, Baluchi, banal nationalism, Bangla, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Liberation War, Bihar, Bihari, Colonialism, Discrimination, English, English as a Global Language, Human rights, India, Indian Partition, Karachi, Linguistic autobiography, Migration, Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Pakistan, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu
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Domestic violence in a multilingual world
Non-English speakers’ access to emergency services in Australia is in the news again as a Melbourne man has been convicted of the murder of his wife. What makes the case particularly shocking is the fact that the victim, who was … Continue reading
Monolinguals on the move – multilinguals stuck in detention
Must-read post by Dennis Baron over at the Web of Language! A US university student who majors in Middle Eastern Studies was detained at Philadelphia Airport for carrying Arabic language learning flashcards. Apparently, the poor soul tried to catch up … Continue reading
