Evaluation at Minority Rights Group

Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East

Rearticulating the Case for Minority Language Rights

While advocacy of minority language rights (MLR) has become well established in sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and the wider human rights literature, it has also come under increased criticism in recent times for a number of key limitations. In this paper, I address directly three current key criticisms of theMLRmovement. The first is aperceived tendency towards essentialism in ...

Ethnic group identification and group evaluation among minority and majority groups: testing the multiculturalism hypothesis.

Following social identity theory, the author hypothesized that members of minority groups are more likely than majority group members to endorse multiculturalism more strongly and assimilationist thinking less strongly. In addition, the multiculturalism hypothesis proposes that the more minority groups endorse the ideology of multiculturalism (or assimilationism), the more (or less) likely they...

Community and minority group relations.

Community and minority group relations is currently one of the central issues in Health Services Organization. Dick Weinerman came to grips with aspects of this problem area throughout his career. He advocated a significant role for unionized plantation workers in the administration of a proposed health services plan for Hawaii in 1952. (25)t In 1960, he discussed and strongly encouraged Labor'...

Early Warning and Minority Rights in Russian Federation

The article provides a critical commentary to current use of the concept "minority" in Russia, particularly in academic and political discourse. The direct borrowing of the concept as it exists in internationallaw or western social sciences is prevented by a number oflimitations inherent to its meaning, the main limitation being that Russia could not be properly characterised as a democracy. Th...