Guus Extra is director of Babylon, Center for Studies of Multilingualism in the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and professor of language and minorities at the same university.Durk Gorter is head of the Social Sciences research group at the Fryske Akademy/Universiteit van Amsterdam and part-time professor of Frisian sociolinguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published on the sociolinguistics of Frisian, minority languages in Europe, trilingual education and language policy.The articles are written by experts on sociolinguistics and applied linguistics who are all involved in the study of multilingualism in its social context.

• PrefaceGuus Extra and Durk Gorter: Comparative Perspectives on Regional and Immigrant Minority Languages in Multicultural EuropePart 1: Regional Languages in EuropeJasone Cenoz: Basque in Spain and FranceColin Williams: Welsh in Great BritainBoyd Robertson: Gaelic in ScotlandDurk Gorter, Alex Riemersma and Jehannes Ytsma: Frisian in the NetherlandsBrigitta Busch: Slovenian in CarinthiaLeena Huss: The National Minority Languages in SwedenAnna Østern: Swedish in FinlandPart 2: Immigrant Languages in EuropeSally Boyd: Immigrant Languages in SwedenIngrid Gogolin and Hans Reich: Immigrant Languages in Federal GermanyTim van der Avoird, Peter Broeder and Guus Extra: Immigrant Minority Languages in the NetherlandsVivian Edwards: Community Languages in the United KingdomDominique Caubet: Maghrebine Arabic in FranceBernabé López García and Laura Mijares Molina: Moroccan Children and Arabic in Spanish SchoolsPeter Bakker: Romani in EuropePart 3: Outlook from AbroadJohn Edwards: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in CanadaReynaldo F. Macías: Minority Languages in the United States, with a Focus on Spanish in CaliforniaNeville Alexander: Majority and Minority Languages in South AfricaUldis Ozolins and Michael Clyne: Immigration and Language Policy in AustraliaAmitav Choudhry: Linguistic Minorities in IndiaKutlay Yagmur: Languages in TurkeyJilali Saíb: Berber and Arabic in MoroccoAppendices