I am a PhD student in the national research school CuEEd-LL and based at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, where I examine ideological tensions in multilingual education in Sweden through a Bourdieusian lens. I am interested primarily in mother tongue education which is at once both systematically inclusive and systematically exclusive of different language speaking groups. I examine mother tongue instruction as a language-ideological concept. The first part of my thesis tracks identity within the language research and political fields to explore how identity became a cornerstone of minority language education in Sweden. I am now analysing an ongoing far-right discursive shift with mother tonge instruction at its centre, and investigating the effects of mother tongue instruction's organisational form on processes of language commodification.