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Each of the preceding six chapters addressed a discrete topic of language politics, and each reached conclusions on this basis so that to this extent they are all self-standing. At the same time, all the chapters examine the topic, Language Politics of Regional Integration: Cases from the Americas, from different perspectives and in so doing point toward more general conclusions. The specific conclusions advanced in Chapters 1–6 together provide a foundation for overall conclusions here.

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  1. Philippe Van Parijs, Linguistic Justice for Europe and the World (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).

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Morris, M.A. (2016). Conclusion. In: Language Politics of Regional Integration. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56147-3_7

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