Minority rights and minority identities - Sámi in Finland and Sorbs in Germany
This paper deals with intemational minority rights and their meaning as an identity resource fr ethnic minorities. It asks why small national groups, such as the Sami and the Sorbs, have not vanished, as was prophesied by modemisation theorists. In fact, the opposite has occurred. In Europe, small n...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6a8e1b3b32694f9dbe1757e9195bd7ff 2023-05-15T18:11:10+02:00 Minority rights and minority identities - Sámi in Finland and Sorbs in Germany Toivanen Reetta 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/6a8e1b3b32694f9dbe1757e9195bd7ff EN eng Population Research Institute of Väestöliitto https://journal.fi/fypr/article/view/44960 https://doaj.org/toc/1796-6183 https://doaj.org/toc/1796-6191 1796-6183 1796-6191 https://doaj.org/article/6a8e1b3b32694f9dbe1757e9195bd7ff Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, Vol 37 (2001) Social Sciences H Demography. Population. Vital events HB848-3697 article 2001 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T00:46:27Z This paper deals with intemational minority rights and their meaning as an identity resource fr ethnic minorities. It asks why small national groups, such as the Sami and the Sorbs, have not vanished, as was prophesied by modemisation theorists. In fact, the opposite has occurred. In Europe, small national minority groups are now clearly gaining more opportunities to invent their own "national" policies. After a short introduction that provides some general background, 1discuss some common definitions of minority rights and the specific meaning of 'minority identity' used in this paper. Then, 1 show how minority rights and minority identities are linked to each other, and why and how intemational minority protection treaties have become a part of the everyday vocabulary of Sami, Sorb and many other national movements. The examples 1 use originate mostly from my field studies with the Sorbs in Eastem Germany and the Sami in Northem Finland. 1 argue that not only the image of the group projected to its members is influenced by these treaties, but that the definition of the group itself is also changed. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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This paper deals with intemational minority rights and their meaning as an identity resource fr ethnic minorities. It asks why small national groups, such as the Sami and the Sorbs, have not vanished, as was prophesied by modemisation theorists. In fact, the opposite has occurred. In Europe, small national minority groups are now clearly gaining more opportunities to invent their own "national" policies. After a short introduction that provides some general background, 1discuss some common definitions of minority rights and the specific meaning of 'minority identity' used in this paper. Then, 1 show how minority rights and minority identities are linked to each other, and why and how intemational minority protection treaties have become a part of the everyday vocabulary of Sami, Sorb and many other national movements. The examples 1 use originate mostly from my field studies with the Sorbs in Eastem Germany and the Sami in Northem Finland. 1 argue that not only the image of the group projected to its members is influenced by these treaties, but that the definition of the group itself is also changed. |
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Minority rights and minority identities - Sámi in Finland and Sorbs in Germany |
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Minority rights and minority identities - Sámi in Finland and Sorbs in Germany |
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Minority rights and minority identities - Sámi in Finland and Sorbs in Germany |
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Minority rights and minority identities - Sámi in Finland and Sorbs in Germany |
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Minority rights and minority identities - Sámi in Finland and Sorbs in Germany |
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minority rights and minority identities - sámi in finland and sorbs in germany |
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Population Research Institute of Väestöliitto |
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