Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration? Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable level of probability of having a strong...

Freedom of religion and conscience is regarded among one of the human rights in international documents signed or declared after the World War II. In this paper I investigate from a legal perspective whether the freedom of religion and conscience and religious minority rights that Alevis enjoy in Turkey are in line with the standards in relevant international documents. Therefore I firstly exam...

This study examines whether different social and marginalized groups in American society (minorities, women, rural dwellers, immigrants, low income, less educated) perceive more constraints or barriers to outdoor recreation participation than White middle-class males. Logistic regressions were applied to data from the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment to model the probability th...

Recruitment of participants for research studies can be challenging. Recruitment of minorities is especially challenging, leading to underrepresentation of minorities in clinical trials, even for conditions that disproportionately affect minorities.1 This is worrisome, since lack of ethnic and racial diversity in study participants hinders the ability to generalize fi ndings and thus the result...

Does contact with ethnic minorities exacerbate or lower the racial prejudice of whites? To provide empirical evidence on this question, I examine the recruitment of members by the British National Party (BNP), which has a long history of supplying hate-creating stories about ethnic minorities. I find that the BNP recruits fewer white members from communities in which: (i) whites interact more f...

This article aims to present and analyse the assessment of ethnic policy Polish state made on basis Fourth Opinion Poland Advisory Committee Council Europe Framework Convention for Protection National Minorities Third Report Experts European Charter Regional or Minority Languages. The main thesis work is statement that although has not changed in analyzed period, some actions authorities testif...

The article analyzes the following main directions of legal regulation for participation national minorities in political life: system granting advantages when participating elections, quotas seats parliament, establishment proportions representation various ethnic groups voting taking into account opinions groups, adoption special legislative acts aimed at protecting rights representatives min...