This book brings together current research by leading international scholars on the often contentious nature of language policies and their practical outcomes in North America, Australia and Europe. It presents a range of perspectives from which to engage with a variety of pressing issues raised by multilingualism, multiculturalism, immigration, exclusion, and identity. This book contains three parts. Part 1: Language Policy at the Official Level, contains: (1) Language Policy and Citizenship in Quebec: French as a Force for Unity in a Diverse Society? (Jane Warren and Leigh Oakes); (2) Do National Languages Need Support and Protection in Legislation? The Case of Swedish as the "Principal Language" of Sweden (Sally Boyd); (3) Language Policy and Smaller National Languages: The Baltic States in the New Millennium (Uldis Ozolins); (4) Language Policy in Australia: What Goes Up Must Come Down? (Paulin G. Djite); and (5) Regional Languages, the European Charter and Republican Values in France Today (Leigh Oakes). Part 2, Language Policy in Practice: Indigenous and Migrant Languages in Education, contains: (6) Breton Language Maintenance and Regeneration in Regional Education Policy Tadhg O hIfearnain; (7) Language Policy in Spain: The Coexistence of Small and Big Languages (David Lasagabaster); (8) Language Policy and Language Contact in New Mexico: The Case of Spanish (Catherine E. Travis and Daniel J. Villa); (9) Indigenous Languages, Bilingual Education and English in Australia (Gillian Wigglesworth and David Lasagabaster); and (10) Bringing Asia to the Home Front: The Australian Experience of Asian Language Education through National Policy (Yvette Slaughter). Part 3, Language Policy in Real and Virtual Worlds, contains: (11) Testing Identity: Language Tests and Australian Citizenship (Kerry Ryan and Tim McNamara); (12) Language as Political Emblem in the New Culture War in Northern Ireland (Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost); (13) Language Policy and Reality in South Tyrol (Claudia Maria Riehl and John Hajek); (14) Addressing Policy on the Web: Netiquettes and Emerging Policies of Language Use in German Internet Forums (Heinz L. Kretzenbacher); (15) Language Policy in Practice: What Happens When Swedish IKEA and H&M Take "You" On? (Catrin Norrby and John Hajek); and (16) Regulating Language in the Global Service Industry (Deborah Cameron). An author index and a subject index are included.