IDENTIDADE E LINGUAS NO RETORNO TRANSXERACIONAL. ANÁLISE DO PROGRAMA "BOLSAS DE EXCELENCIA MOCIDADE EXTERIOR" (XUNTA DE GALICIA, 2017-2023)
Identity, Language and Transgenerational Return: Analysing the 'Scholarships for Outstanding Youth Abroad' ("Bolsas de Excelencia Mocidade Exterior") Programme, Xunta de Galicia, 2017–2023

Author(s): Carme Silva-Domínguez, Nicola Bermingham
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: historical Galician migration; Galician migration to Europe; return migration; transnationalism; linguistic ideologies
Summary/Abstract: This article analyses an educational initiative called “Scholarships for Outstanding Youth Abroad” (Bolsas de Excelencia Mocidade Exterior, BEME), developed by the Galician autonomous government. It offers scholarships for postgraduate studies at one of Galicia’s three universities to Galicians living abroad - both those who emigrated following the financial crisis of 2008 and third- and fourth-generation descendants of Galician emigrants to Latin America. The initiative forms part of Galicia’s Return Strategy 2020, which promotes return migration to Galicia. In the first part of the article, the grounds for the implementation of this ambitious return policy are explained; the terminological framework surrounding return migration is analysed; and, finally, the results of the BEME scholarship programme are studied to better understand why significantly more transgenerational migrants apply to the scheme than first-generation migrants. Following this contextual introduction, the second part of the article presents the research questions and the qualitative methodological approach adopted in the study, which comprises semi-structured life story interviews and discourse analysis of written and audio-visual texts published by relevant political institutions and social stakeholders.

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