We are excited to announce that the IMISCOE EduSocial Standing Committee and the Migration, Mobility and Ethnicity Research Group (CIES-Iscte) are co-hosting a two-day workshop (13 and 14 of November) in Lisbon that explores the intersections of language, migration, education, and equity.

This workshop will bring together scholars to discuss how language education in migratory and diasporic settings can serve as both a tool for inclusion and a mechanism of marginalisation. We invite papers that critically engage with issues such as:

•  Heritage language maintenance in diasporic communities
• Multilingual education policy and practice
• Teacher training in heritage/multilingual contexts
• Language ideologies and raciolinguistic hierarchies
• Language rights, access, and identity in education
• Translingual pedagogies and linguistic justice

Who Should Apply
We welcome contributions from scholars from all qualification stages – PhD students, ECR, senior scholars – who are engaged in research related to language education and migration. We especially welcome perspectives that highlight underrepresented communities, comparative approaches, or interdisciplinary methodologies.

Submission & Acceptance Guidelines
Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) outlining your proposed contribution, including its relevance to the workshop themes. We invite paper submissions for a focused academic gathering, where we will accept 10 papers to foster a rich and in-depth discussion. Selected contributions will be considered for inclusion in an intended special issue.
To support broad participation, we have a limited budget available to cover travel, accommodation, and meal costs for participants without institutional funding.

Important dates
Deadline for submission: 15 th of June, 2025
Notification of acceptance: 30 th of June, 2025

Please send your abstracts to the contact persons
Nubin Ciziri nubinciziri@gmail.com
Lela Goginava l.goginava@gruni.edu.ge
Tamila Carvalho: Tamila_Carvalho@iscte-iul.pt

All information here