Old and new minorities: Reconciling diversity and cohesion

Medda-Windischer, Roberta

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“…However, there appears to be a tendency to recognize that traditional, indigenous minorities on the one hand and new, migrant minorities on the other have several similar concerns and needs (Medda-Windischer 2009). This similarity would justify a broad inclusive definition of 'minority' while recognizing a sliding scale in terms of rights and entitlements to the effect that a group's rights (particularly resource intensive rights) become stronger over time when the group's connection with the country strengthens.…”

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EU Law’s Half-Hearted Protection of Religious Minorities Minority Specific Rights and Freedom of Religion for All

Henrard

2021

Religions

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This article begins with some reflections on the definition of religious minorities, their needs and rights and how this relates to the discussion about the need for minority specific rights in addition to general fundamental rights as rights for all human beings irrespective of particular identity features. Secondly, an overall account of the ambiguous relationship between religious minorities and fundamental rights is presented. The third and most extensive section zooms in on the EU and religious minorities, starting with an account of the EU’s general approach towards minorities and then turning to the protection of fundamental rights of religious minorities in/through the EU legal order. First, the EU’s engagement with minority specific rights and the extent to which these norms have been attentive to religious themes will be discussed. Second, the CJEU’s case law concerning freedom of religion and the prohibition of dis-crimination as general human rights is analysed. The conclusion then turns to the overall perspective and discusses whether the EU’s protection of religious minorities’ fundamental rights can be considered ‘half-hearted’ and, if so, to what extent. This in turn allows us to return to the overall focus of the Special Issue, namely the relationship between the freedom of religion for all and special rights for religious minorities.

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EU Law’s Half-Hearted Protection of Religious Minorities Minority Specific Rights and Freedom of Religion for All

Henrard

2021

Religions

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“…The contemporary Kashubians are a community which, according to the latest census of 2011, consists of more than 232,547 people (www.stat.gov.pl) who declared their Kashubian ethnocultural identity, although some estimations reach 500,000 (Mordawski, 2005). They mainly live in the area stretching from Gdansk towards Leba and the areas of the Tuchola Forests, i.e.…”

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“…According to Roberta Medda-Windischer, the members of this type of community use their own language, share common traditions, culture or religion as opposed to other members of the population. They do not usually acquire the status of a group having its own state, as the territory they inhabit even in the course of centuries and border changes has remained a part of another sovereign country (Medda-Windischer, 2009, 2015: 3).…”

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How do new nations arise? The case of the Kashubians

Warmińska

2020

Ethnicities

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The main aim of the article is to describe and interpret the national aspirations of the part of Kashubian leaders. The discussions concerning the ethnic character of the community have been taking place for the last three decades. Different voices could be heard, among which there is one claiming that the Kashubs are a separate nation. In my paper, I focus on three issues. First of all, I analyze how a nation is conceptualized by them, generally. Secondly, I show how they are talking about their group of belonging, what vision of their own nation they share, how they define criteria for membership and how they construct symbolic boundaries. Thirdly, I concentrate on the process which can be named as the mechanics of construction of a nation. This concept well described in sociological and anthropological literature (i.a. A.D. Smith, R. Brubaker, C. Calhoun, T.H.Eriksen. E. Gellner, B. Anderson), still evokes some questions, especially if it is applied to rather new phenomena, as the Kashubian case. At the end, I will deliberate whether the concept of nationalism or the concept of identity politics better explains current ethnic/national processes, especially in the discussed group. The analysis of this case enable not only to show the example of national process taking place in this part of Europe, but also to formulate some general conclusions concerning ethnicity nowadays. An empirical material which will be the base of this paper comes from my field work which I have been conducting since 2008.

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“…Conversely, the anthropological perspective, grounded in the analysis of the sociocultural, symbolic processes and meanings behind the enactment of border practices and regimes in relation to migration, seems better equipped to inform the epistemological, ontological and methodological dimensions of borders 1 . Such a perspective becomes particularly telling in contexts such as Alto Adige/Südtirol, a territorially and culturally distinct area due to the co-presence of «old minorities» along with the so-called "new" minorities originating from international migration (Medda-Windischer 2009) 2 .…”

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Borders within. An Ethnographic Take on the Reception Policies of Asylum Seekers in Alto Adige/South Tyrol

Uberti¹

2019

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Recent developments in border crossings, commuter migration trajectories, secondary movements, forced mobility and the involuntary settlement of populations on and across the edges of nation-states within Europe and at its sea and land thresholds, have urged border scholars to rethink the theoretical and analytical tools used to describe this "multilevel complexity of borders". This has meant a "processual turn" in analysing how borders and «border regimes» (Fontanari 2017), conceived of as "practices of bordering/border-making", are created (Paasi 1998; van Houtum, van Naerssen 2002; Newman 2006). 2 Autochthonous and migrant populations, ideologies, policies, narratives and daily practices, as well as classificatory processes promoted by institutional and nongovernmental actors such as those operating in the communication and public service sectors, all foster the development of bordering processes. The processual approach to borders has turned out to be particularly salient when it comes to capturing the complexity of those informal settlements inhabited by wandering migrants such as "the Jungle" of Calais or the towns of Šid in Serbia, Bihać and Velika Kladuša in the Bosnian canton of Una-Sana, and the Italian municipalities of Ventimiglia and Bolzano, all located at the gateways of migrant trajectories. The understanding of the dynamics Borders within. An Ethnographic Take on the Reception Policies of Asylum Seek...

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Old and new minorities: Reconciling diversity and cohesion

Cited by 14 publications

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EU Law’s Half-Hearted Protection of Religious Minorities Minority Specific Rights and Freedom of Religion for All

EU Law’s Half-Hearted Protection of Religious Minorities Minority Specific Rights and Freedom of Religion for All

How do new nations arise? The case of the Kashubians

Borders within. An Ethnographic Take on the Reception Policies of Asylum Seekers in Alto Adige/South Tyrol

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