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.
