Assistant Professor Josefina Bittar awarded the Hellman Fellows Program Award

July 02, 2024

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Bittar will conduct fieldwork on language use and change among  Paraguayan immigrants in Spain. In the past twenty years, Paraguayan-born people living in the European country went from 1,000 to 127,000. Because the majority of these immigrants are bilingual in Guarani and Spanish, exploring this ongoing migration contributes to understanding Guarani-Spanish bilingualism while seeking to expand broader linguistic debates about how immigration affects language change and identity.