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Many scholars and pundits have strongly criticized the investment that migrants make in maintaining links with their homeland countries, particular identities and their ethnic enclaves because they suggest this acts against their capacity to integrate fully into ‘mainstream’ society and politics (see, for example, Huntington, 2004). Recent debates in the US, in fact, have especially focused on Latino or Hispanic migrants — arguing that their ‘resistance’ in keeping their traditions and their Spanish language additionally poses a threat to the social cohesion that English provides as the common and dominant language. Similar concerns have often been voiced in Europe regarding, for example, non-European migrants who might take longer than expected to learn the main language in the country and who form ethnic ‘enclaves’ in certain areas of the towns and cities where they live. |
