Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisa Série Ensaios

Theme: Linguistic and Cultural Welcoming of Migrants and Refugees: challenges and possibilities

The intensity of contemporary migratory flows has led to profound social, cultural, political, and linguistic transformations worldwide. Across the globe, human displacement, triggered by economic crises, armed conflicts, political persecution, environmental disasters, and structural inequalities has forged new landscapes of intercultural coexistence. This reality demands ethical, institutional, and educational responses dedicated to the welcoming and integration of migrants and refugees.

Within this framework, linguistic and cultural welcoming practices play a pivotal role in fostering citizenship, ensuring access to rights, and promoting social inclusion. Far beyond mere tools for communication, languages serve as vital spaces for belonging, memory, identity, and resistance. Consequently, reflecting upon language policies, language pedagogy, teaching practices, cultural mediation, and experiences of hospitality is essential to understanding both the challenges and the opportunities inherent in contemporary migratory processes.

This issue of Cadernos CESPUC aims to bring together papers that systematize empirical experiences, practices, and theoretical reflections on the linguistic and cultural welcoming of migrants and refugees across different continents, with  particular focus on the Iberian Peninsula, the Americas, and Africa. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions that engage with fields such as Applied Linguistics, Education, Language Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature, Human Rights, Anthropology, Sociology, and Public Policy.

We invite researchers to submit articles addressing, but not limited to, the following thematic axes:

• Language policies for migrants and refugees;
• Teaching Portuguese as a Welcoming Language (PLAc) and Spanish for migrants;
• Migrant narratives, memory, and identity;
• Translation, linguistic mediation, and access to rights;
• Teacher education and training for welcoming contexts;
• Experiences of hospitality, integration, and belonging;
• Literature, art, and cultural production within migratory contexts;
• Migrant childhoods, schooling, and literacy practices;
• Support networks, outreach initiatives, and community-based projects.

Guest Editors:

• Prof. Sandra Cavalcante (PUC Minas)
• Prof. Josiane Militão (PUC Minas)
• Prof. Luciane Correa Ferreira (UFMG)