Abstract
Drawing on school ethnography, based on data generated from participant observation, interviews, field diaries and documental analysis, this study focus on the way Russian descendent students in Southern Brazil deal with linguistic borders and sociocultural dynamics of inclusion/exclusion at school. Our main goal is to show how linguistic and sociocultural borders are enacted by participants in their speech. Data analysis shows that different perspectives appear. Teachers, students and school staff vary their opinions and sometimes they appear to be stricter and sometimes more lenient regarding linguistic and sociocultural borders. Depending on the situation and interlocutor, such borders may become more or less visible, what points to a developing sociopolitical process of inclusion in that specific context.
Keywords:
Multilingualism; Linguistic borders; Cultural borders; Russian immigrants; Minority groups