This is a book about language and education in one of the smallest European Union member-states
Luxembourg. It presents the results of an ethnographic study of code-switching and language
ideologies among transnational luso-descendant youngsters attending a number of youth centres
in Luxembourg city. It offers a comprehensive description of the processes of construction and
negotiation of new emergent identities and ethnicities. The author considers the implications
of these results for language-in-education policy including the EU policy of multilingualism.
He criticizes mother-tongue education and advocates instead the use of «literacy bridges».
Clearly argued and widely applicable this book is essential reading for students and
researchers interested in multilingualism migration and education.
