Bio

Nina Carlsson is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Södertörn University. Her research interests include non-dominant minorities, linguistic domination, colonialism, territoriality and migration. In her doctoral dissertation, she investigates nation-building through linguistic-cultural immigrant integration policies in multinational states with historically present minorities. Her work has appeared in Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe.

Project

In the research carried out at Faber, I problematize the weak position of non-dominant minority languages in linguistic-cultural requirements for immigrants in Europe. I make their exclusion visible through a policy mapping and challenge their absence in a normative discussion, claiming that states should grant the possibility for immigrants to learn such languages both for the linguistic adaptation of immigrants and to counter the assimilation of non-dominant minority languages. Immigrant integration is a key element of nation-building with interlinked yet different consequences for both national minorities and immigrants, which is why I aim to contribute to this underresearched topic.