title: Russian-speaking (but not Russian) mothers in Finland: positioning ethnolinguistic identities in family language policy talk
abstract: Anti-Russian sentiment or ‘Russophobia’ has been on the rise around the world since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine (Washington Post, 2022). Negative attitudes towards Russians and the Russian language can potentially influence the desires and practices of Russian-speaking parents in using the language with their children in contexts outside of Russia. This article examines the language ideologies and family language policies of a diverse group of Russian-s peaking mothers in Finland before the Ukr
journal: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development