Abstract
Kosovo is one of the countries that has been suffering for decades of massive migration. More than one third of the Kosovo population live abroad nowadays making it one of the countries with highest migration in the world. The main characteristic of the Kosovo Albanian diaspora living abroad is their strong tie with the homeland and their strong attachment to their identity. They face with constant struggle of identity preservation on one side and social and cultural integration in the host country on the other side. While they place a specific role and importance in the use of Albanian language in family settings and correspondence with other members of Kosovo Albanian diaspora, they make extraordinary efforts to integrate into a new living pattern which serves them in construction of new life pursuant to new circumstances of the host country. There is a constant battle between the generations’ perception on identity – while the first generation does everything to retain the language of origin, the second generation embraces the language of the host country which plays a crucial role in social and cultural integration and their active involvement in the life of the host country.
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Skender Shala, Haxhi Zeka University, Kosovo
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Conference: ECLL2024
Stream: Culture and Language
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Shala S. (2024) Language of Diaspora – The Role of Language in Identity Preservation and Social Integration ISSN: 2188-112X The European Conference on Language Learning 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 91-99) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-112X.2024.8
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-112X.2024.8
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