The United States is home to the second largest number of Spanish speakers in the world. This is due in part to the fact that Spanish is the original language of a fraction of the U.S. population, but more significantly, to the comprehensive and growing diaspora of Latin American migrants that have arrived to the country.
U.S. leadership will be a strong factor in the persistence of Spanish in its midst as a living language will be a powerful factor in the strengthening of the language on the international stage. In this volume, a number of specialists, all professors of Latino origins currently working in U.S. universities, analyze a variety of factors, from different perspectives, that play a role in the present and future vitality of Spanish as a second language in the U.S. The result is a rich and complex work surrounding a crucial issue that will influence the future of Spanish as an international language.