Author: Minority Rights Group
Publisher:
Published: 1993-06
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781897693100
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arno Tanner
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789529168088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernd Rechel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2010-06
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0415590310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a comprehensive assessment of minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, covering all the countries of the region that have joined the EU since 2004, including Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.
Author: Christina Bratt Paulston
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781853594168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text aims to provide an introductory study of linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe taking into account historical development, present situation, language maintenance and shift as well as language and educational policies of each country included in this study.
Author: Timofey Agarin
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9042027339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book presents a timely examination on a range of issues present in the discussions on the integration of ethnic minorities in Central Eastern Europe: norm setting, equality promotion, multiculturalism, nation-building, social cohesion, and ethnic diversity. It insightfully illustrates these debates by assessing them diachronically rather than cross-nationally from the legal, political and anthropological perspective. The contributors unpack concepts related to minority integration, discuss progress in policy-implementation and scrutinize the outcomes of minority integration in seven countries from the region. The volume is divided into three sections taking a multi-variant perspective on minority integration and equality. The volume starts with an analysis of international organizations setting standards and promoting minority rights norms on ethnic diversity and equal treatment. The second and third sections address state policies that provide fora for minority groups to participate in policy-making as well as the role of society and its various actors their development and enactment of integration concepts. The volume aims to assess the future of ethnic diversity and equality in societies across Central Eastern European states.
Author: Ray Taras
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1349265535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides a cross-national analysis of the changing identities of various national and ethnic groups, their new political influence in the emergent democracies and their efforts to revive suppressed cultures. It begins with a theoretical analysis of the concepts of national identity and ethnicity. It features case studies of contemporary Belarussian, Polish and Ukrainian national identities before turning to a study of Eastern Europe's hidden ethnic minorities, like the Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia, the Lemkos in Poland and the Gypsies in Bulgaria.
Author: Peter Vermeersch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781845451646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in Central Europe. In this context, the growing plight of Europe's biggest minority, the Roma (Gypsies), has been particularly salient. Traditionally dispersed, possessing few resources and devoid of a common "kin state" to protect their interests, the Roma have often suffered from widespread exclusion and institutionalized discrimination. Politically underrepresented and lacking popular support amongst the wider populations of their host countries, the Roma have consequently become one of Europe's greatest "losers" in the transition towards democracy. Against this background, the author examines the recent attempts of the Roma in Central Europe and their supporters to form a political movement and to influence domestic and international politics. On the basis of first-hand observation and interviews with activists and politicians in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, he analyzes connections between the evolving state policies towards the Roma and the recent history of Romani mobilization. In order to reach a better understanding of the movement's dynamics at work, the author explores a number of theories commonly applied to the study of social movements and collective action.
Author: Judy Batt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1136343164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The papers that comprise this collection examine the role of competing European, national, ethnic and regional identities over the introduction of new regional levels of government in the former Soviet and now Central and Eastern European states.