Understanding the Spanish Language in Europe: Current Migration and Educational Trends

One way of describing the internationalization of Spanish is language demography – an interdisciplinary approach aimed at quantifying potential users of the Spanish language and explaining how this community has been formed. This book analyzes Spanish-speaking populations in Europe, describing their main trends and explaining their most significant dynamics, migration and education. Main aspects include migratory contacts, the intergenerational transmission of the Spanish language, the position of Spanish in European educational systems and the role of translation and communication technologies.

This volume has received funding from the Observatorio del Español en Europa (Universität Heidelberg) and from the Observatorio Nebrija del Español (Universidad Nebrija).