170 Project Day Session The Outcome of the Minority and Language Policy in Sweden
An important aspect of democracy concerns the treat-ment of national minorities and their position in soci-ety. It raises questions about their citizenship, infl uence in society, right to be treated in the same way, positive kind of favouritism and legal security, all examples of basic democratic v...
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| Summary: | An important aspect of democracy concerns the treat-ment of national minorities and their position in soci-ety. It raises questions about their citizenship, infl uence in society, right to be treated in the same way, positive kind of favouritism and legal security, all examples of basic democratic values. The rights of minorities, as part of basic democratic values, is a relatively new issue to which there is no political agreement; neither concern-ing the principal issue of minority policy, nor concern-ing its implementation (Rawls 1971 & 1993; Dworkin 1977; Walzer 1983; Taylor 1985 & 1999; Kymlicka 1998). From the middle of the 70s there was a radical change in the minority policy of Sweden, which followed in the wake of corresponding international changes.This change infl uenced the ethnic minorities in diff erent ways. The main change was the introduction of im-migrant language teaching and the recognition of the Sámi people as an indigenous people. 1 A similar devel-opment occured in Norway and Finland. There are fi ve ethnic minorities in Sweden, which af-ter the year 2000 were regarded as national minorities within the legal framework of the European Council. It |
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