Naslov
Minority Identities in Reality: Between Conflict and Cooperation

Autori
Granić, Jagoda

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics - NDLP 2015: Book of Abstracts. 12-14 April 2015. University of Lodz, Poland / Wieczorek, Anna Ewa - Łódź : Lodz University Press, 2015, 189-190

ISBN
978-83-7969-595-9

Skup
7th Lodz Symposium ''New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics'' (NDLP 2015)

Mjesto i datum
Łódź, Poljska, 12.04.2015. - 14.04.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
minority identities; classification of minorities; identity protection

Sažetak
The most frequent division of minorities is into ''traditional (old)'' and ''new'' minorities. Even accepting this division, by using three different criteria (time, space, status) and a dichotomous model and binary description, minorities can be classified into: 1. autochthonous and allochthonous (non-autochthonous), 2. compact and diffuse (dispersed) and 3. minorities having a mother country and those who do not (apatrides or stateless). There are two types of autochthonous minorities: national minorities and original inhabitants. National minorities are historically settled communities determined by their separate language and/or culture. They have frequently changed their status because of redrawing of state borders ; depending on political circumstances, they have been on one side or the other of the border, and perceived accordingly as majorities or minorities. Original inhabitants inhabited a certain territory before the arrival of the majority population, but, again because of changed political circumstances, became a minority after a conquest and/or colonization, so that their language has become a substrate, and that of the conquerors a superstrate. Since the prior inhabitants held the territory first, they have much ''older rights to the territory'' and deserve special rights. Allochthonous minorities are in fact ethnocultural minorities. They are mostly immigrants, refugees, and their descendants, living in countries different from their country of origin. Ethnocultural, allochthonous minorities, though not having the right to autonomy, have the right not to be discriminated against, to maintain their own cultural identity, and gradually to accommodate to the majority or even to other minorities if there are any in the region. Minorities can be territorially compact, tightly knit, united, or diffuse, dispersed, scattered over a larger area. Compact minorities exercise their language rights more easily than non-compact ones, and may even gain complete autonomy. Croatia does not reserve minority rights only to certain territories or to autochthonous populations, as do Spain, Italy, Austria and many other European countries. No distinctions are made between the statuses of "old" and "new" minorities. Protection and promotion of identity, whether individual or collective, presupposes the right of the individual and of the minority community to identification and cooperation.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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