Minorities, Minority Protection in Romania
Minorities, Minority Protection in Romania

Author(s): István Horváth
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: national minorities;Romania;ethnic landscape; ethnogeography
Summary/Abstract: The article is a general overview of the Romanian situation of national minorities and and a brief analysis of the post 1990 shaped minority protection system in Romania. The first two parts are analysing the Romanian ethnic landscape with a special focus on the margins of the panorama: ethnographic groups striving for official recognition as national minorities and the (still marginal) presence of the new, immigrant minorities. Figures and demographic dynamics of the recognized national minorities are presented followed by indicators on the ethno-linguistic vitality of these groups. Also a typology of Romanian minority ethnogeography is outlined too. Analysing the Romanian minority protection system the article first offers a historical overview of the last two decades ethno-political debates and trends, and in the last part of the article the major institutions of the present day Romanian minority protections system are inventoried.

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