National minorities/ New minorities. What similarities and differences in contemporary Europe?

Ethnic Minorities in Europe: The Basic Facts

Even though there is no agreed definition of what constitutes an ethnic group, there are a number of features that most academic treatments of the subject attribute to such groups: a proper collective name, shared myths of origin, and cultural characteristics, such as language, religion, traditions and customs that distinguish a given group from others. Different combinations of these features ...

National Minorities, Nationalizing States, and External National Homelands in the New Europe Notes toward a Relational Analysis

The Republican ideal? National minorities and the criminal justice system in contemporary France

In recent years, worsening economic conditions have led to growing tensions between native-born French and a rising tide of immigrants, largely from North Africa and other parts of the developing world. The French criminal justice system has responded to perceived levels of social disorder and delinquency in these ethnic neighborhoods by increasing police surveillance, widening court jurisdicti...

Migrants, minorities and health: historical and contemporary studies

The old wine in new bottles approach to immigration studies tends to offer the experience of one or two major immigration groups as universal, assuming that while the nationality or ethnicity or race of immigrant "others" has changed over time, social and cultural tendencies to associate them with disease has remained constant. In such analyses, "foreignness" becomes a shorthand for race, natio...

the protection of national minorities within the council of europe: an analytical review

according to the preamble of the framework convention for the protection of national minorities (which entered into force on february 1, 1998) minority rights are an integral part of fundamental human rights. universal level that taken on great importance in addressing the challenges of minority protection in evolving and increasingly diverse societies. so, this survey has an analytical appro...