European Integration, Regional Change and Ethnic Minority Mobilisation: An Introduction
European Integration, Regional Change and Ethnic Minority Mobilisation: An Introduction

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this introductory chapter is to provide an overview of the theoretical framework informing the case studies presented in this issue. In the context of nation and state building, it describes and analyzes the presence of minorities in Europe, their politicisation at the regional-local level in post war Europe, as well as the role played by EU regional economic processes and human rights policies since the early 1990s. European integration extends to minority-inhabited areas through processes of regional development change, implementation of structural funds, cross border co-operation, and in CESE pre-accession funds. Nation-state building, border regions and minorities in Southeast Europe Regional minority politicisation in post-war Europe Market integration, regional disparities and structural funds Regions, territorial restructuring and ethnic minorities Europeanisation, regional restructuring and minority-majority relations. The reconfiguration of political and economic interests Socioeconomic and institutional change, historical trajectories and culture National-ethnic identity and emerging perceptions of ‘Europe’ Eastern enlargement: human rights, regional development and minorities

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