SEMINAR: The politics of injustice in translingualism: Linguistic racism

This study aims to fill this critical research gap in existing trasnlingual theories, urging a stronger need to acknowledge one of its most overlooked characteristics – ‘linguistic injustice’ experienced by translingual speakers. It examines how one’s basic human rights are violated; and how one is deprived of education, employment, health and social opportunities based on an individual’s use of language. Dr. Sender Dovchin is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Education, Curtin University, under a Discovery Early Career Research Awarde (DECRA, 2018 Australian Research Council). Previously, she was an Associate Professor at the Centre for Language Research, The University of Aizu, Japan. She completed her PhD and MA degrees in language education at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the language education of young people living in globalized contexts, and she has contributed widely to international peer-reviewed journals.