Introduction - Anniversary Issue

The Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote greater knowledge of the situation of the official language minorities of Canada, and a better understanding of the priority issues that concern them. CIRLM created the journal Minorités linguistiques et société/Linguistic Minorities and Society late 2010 to help increase knowledge within this research field. Its mandate or field of study would be disseminating research findings and reflections on the official language minority communities of Canada and on other linguistic minorities in Canada and elsewhere in the world, from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective in the areas of language sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Additionally, CIRLM wanted to respond to a growing interest in scientific research on official and co-official language minorities, and in publishing the results of this research in one or other of the official languages of Canada. Since its creation, CIRLM has been responsible for operating the journal, providing essential financial support to cover costs of management, graphic design, linguistic revision, translation of texts, and the publication of issues, including making them available online on Érudit. CIRLM’s administrative assistant supports the journal management and acts as coordinator, in addition to looking after the journal’s budget. When it was first launched, the journal received financial and in-kind support from Canadian Heritage, the Commissioner of Official Languages, the Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS) and the Institut d’études acadiennes. Taking over from the CNFS, the Association des collèges et universités francophones du Canada continues to be a partner of the journal, providing financial support. The editorial direction of the journal is chosen by and reports to CIRLM leadership. An editorial board provides support for the journal management, and it can be asked to propose orientations and new themes. Editorial board members are called upon to decide on proposals for thematic issues, including themes, calls, and orientations. The members may also, on an optional basis, participate in blind peer review. The review’s direction has always sought their advice at various times, and intends to continue to do so. Réal Allard was the first editor of the journal. Professor emeritus of education, he was professor and research associate at CIRLM at the Université de Moncton. After taking what he refers to as “formal retirement” in 1997, he remained active in postgraduate teaching, research, and community service. He was also director of the Centre de recherche et de développement en éducation from 1991 to 2003. His research has focused on education in minority language contexts, subjective ethnolinguistic vitality, the desire to integrate and ethnolinguistic identity, ethnolinguistic awareness, identity engagement and engaged behaviour, beliefs and ethnolinguistic behaviour in minority language environments, and education and bilingual development. Jason Luckerhoff took over as editor in 2021. Previously, he co-founded the journal Approches inductives, as well as Enjeux et société, which is managed by the Université de l’Ontario français in Toronto. He also co-founded the collection Culture et publics at Presses de l’Université du Québec, and was involved in Coalition Publica, a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project to promote research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada. To ensure a smooth transition in the journal’s direction, Réal Allard initially remained as co-editor, before becoming honorary editor. From the outset, the journal has been available as an open-access publication on the Érudit platform. Érudit has signed agreements with most of the world’s leading indexing and aggregation tools, allowing the journal to be referenced in Canada and internationally. Full XML processing, adopted with issue 20 in 2023, improves discoverability by making the entire content …