Who are ‘We, the People’?:A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden
The right to self-constitute and to demarcate the demos, i.e. the right to regulate membership, is an important part of Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination. The right to self-constitute may create different kinds of conflicts with the states in which Indigenous Peoples live but may also affect th...
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ftulaplandcdispu:oai:lacris.ulapland.fi:publications/06ac084e-2575-4f8c-b951-e38bbbd1a1cc 2023-05-15T15:10:08+02:00 Who are ‘We, the People’?:A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden Mörkenstam, Ulf Selle, Per Valkonen, Sanna Valkonen, Sanna Aikio, Áile Alakorva, Saara Magga, Sigga-Marja 2022 https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/06ac084e-2575-4f8c-b951-e38bbbd1a1cc https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025511 eng eng Routledge info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Mörkenstam , U , Selle , P & Valkonen , S 2022 , Who are ‘We, the People’? A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden . in S Valkonen , Á Aikio , S Alakorva & S-M Magga (eds) , The Sámi World . Routledge , London . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025511 Sámi research Indigenous research Arctic Indigenous peoples Political science decolonisation /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/1 Sociology /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/2 Social policy bookPart 2022 ftulaplandcdispu https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025511 2022-10-13T05:55:01Z The right to self-constitute and to demarcate the demos, i.e. the right to regulate membership, is an important part of Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination. The right to self-constitute may create different kinds of conflicts with the states in which Indigenous Peoples live but may also affect the balance of power within Indigenous communities. The transnational Indigenous Sámi people have no common constitution defining who belong to the people. In Finland, Norway and Sweden, Sámi membership has been handled in relation to specific legislation on Sámi issues. In this chapter, the authors’ aim is twofold: First, to describe the criteria for registering in the Sámi electoral roll in the Nordic states and second, to analyze why these criteria have been perceived in such a different fashion within the Sámi communities in their respective countries and why they have been implemented differently by the three Sámediggis. Since Indigenous self-determination within the borders of already-existing nation-states always means some external control and not total autonomy, it is important to compare how the question of membership is playing itself out among the same Indigenous People but in different national contexts that otherwise have so much in common. Book Part Arctic Sámi LaCRIS - University of Lapland Current Research System Arctic Norway London |
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The right to self-constitute and to demarcate the demos, i.e. the right to regulate membership, is an important part of Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination. The right to self-constitute may create different kinds of conflicts with the states in which Indigenous Peoples live but may also affect the balance of power within Indigenous communities. The transnational Indigenous Sámi people have no common constitution defining who belong to the people. In Finland, Norway and Sweden, Sámi membership has been handled in relation to specific legislation on Sámi issues. In this chapter, the authors’ aim is twofold: First, to describe the criteria for registering in the Sámi electoral roll in the Nordic states and second, to analyze why these criteria have been perceived in such a different fashion within the Sámi communities in their respective countries and why they have been implemented differently by the three Sámediggis. Since Indigenous self-determination within the borders of already-existing nation-states always means some external control and not total autonomy, it is important to compare how the question of membership is playing itself out among the same Indigenous People but in different national contexts that otherwise have so much in common. |
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Who are ‘We, the People’?:A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden |
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Who are ‘We, the People’?:A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden |
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Who are ‘We, the People’?:A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden |
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Who are ‘We, the People’?:A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden |
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Who are ‘We, the People’?:A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden |
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who are ‘we, the people’?:a comparative analysis of the right to register in the sámi electoral roll in finland, norway and sweden |
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Mörkenstam , U , Selle , P & Valkonen , S 2022 , Who are ‘We, the People’? A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden . in S Valkonen , Á Aikio , S Alakorva & S-M Magga (eds) , The Sámi World . Routledge , London . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003025511 |
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