ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the resurgence of linguistic repression in our late modern age of increased mobility, European consolidation and accelerated globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It provides how institutional discourses on language and migration frequently contribute to the precarious situation of immigrant heritage languages and their speakers. Official discourses usually claim that monolingual policies are necessary for social unity and cohesion. In these discourses, people who speak immigrant minority languages are looked upon as being in need of 'integration'. The chapter describes two related metaphors of integration that are an integral part of such a more quantitative view of integration: the game metaphor and the mathematical graph metaphor. In these metaphors, the centre-periphery model is reconfigured as a hierarchical model of social stratification, with the migrants placed at the bottom of the scale. The chapter critically analyses the discourse of integration and then examining a number of language testing regimes.
