著者

山本 須美子

出版者

東洋大学社会学部

雑誌

東洋大学社会学部紀要 = The bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University (ISSN:04959892)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.56, no.2, pp.95-111, 2019-03

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This study examines the circumstances of the Catalan language use and education among immigrants in Barcelona, focusing on the Chinese based on fieldwork I conducted in September 2017 and 2018. Catalan is, along with Spanish (Castilian language), the official language of Catalonia. It should be noted that the number of Chinese immigrants in Barcelona has rapidly increased since the 2000s. First, this study traces the historical background of language policies in Catalonia,explaining the Immersion Program in schools and how people use Catalan and Spanish contemporarily. Second, it examines how circumstances of language use have been changed by the influx of the immigrants from southern Spain since the 1960s and those from abroad since the 1990s. Third, this paper illuminates the actual circumstances of Catalan use and education among Chinese people based on interviews with the staff of Centre de Normalització Lingüística L'Heura in charge of Chinese residents in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Chinese mothers who pursued higher education, and young Chinese people. The study concludes by outlining that Chinese first-generation individuals exhibitminimum abilities of speaking and writing Catalan and Castilian, despite L'Heura's efforts to teach Catalan. In contrast, many young Chinese who obtained a higher education have welldeveloped abilities of speaking and writing Catalan and Castilian. However, there are a few Chinese young people who have become Catalan nationalists because of the prioritization of Catalan in their educational experiences.