Abstract In this article, I aim to analyse language rights in relation to groups of immigrant origin. Liberal democracies are reluctant to consider immigrant groups as subjects entitled to the same set of language and cultural rights enjoyed by national minorities. However, the trend towards increasing levels of immigration is configuring new cultural and language correlations within territorial boundaries that provoke responses that problematise a fixed conception of language rights. Drawing on theories of liberal multiculturalism, I examine the case of claims for language recognition in the Spanish autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla and its normative implications. In these territories, factors such as size, concentration, and the historical ties of Arabic- and Berber-speaking communities challenge conventional approaches to minority groups’ rights based on a national versus immigrant minority distinction. I argue that these approaches are not satisfactory for language claims in these two cities and that a contextual approach is better suited to conceptualising the recognition of language rights.

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语言权利和移民群体

摘要 在本文中，我旨在分析与移民来源群体相关的语言权利。自由民主国家不愿将移民群体视为享有与少数民族一样的语言和文化权利的主体。然而，移民水平增加的趋势正在领土边界内配置新的文化和语言相关性，这引发了对固定的语言权利概念进行问题化的反应。借鉴自由多元文化主义的理论，我研究了西班牙自治城市休达和梅利利亚的语言承认主张及其规范含义。在这些领土上，诸如规模、集中度、阿拉伯语和柏柏尔语社区的历史联系挑战了基于民族与移民少数群体区别的少数群体权利的传统方法。我认为这些方法对于这两个城市的语言要求并不令人满意，上下文方法更适合将语言权利的承认概念化。