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Language Minorities in Europe: Dying species or forerunner of a transnational civil society?

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2005

language minorities shall be analysed with reference to specific case studies from Germany, France and Spain. …Language minorities can be found as evidence of unfinished nation-building in relatively closed territorial settlements … tolerance. As will be argued, the expanding rights of language minorities must be understood in relation to a re …

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Language Rights and Community Law

Urrutia, Iñigo; Lasagabaster, Iñaki - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 12 (2008) 11

The territory of the European Union is made up of a rich and wide-ranging universe of languages, which is not only circumscribed to the "state languages". The existence of multilingualism is one of Europe’s defining characteristic and it should remain so in the constantly evolving model of...

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Religions, secularity and democracy in Europe: for a new Kelsenian pact

Ferrari, Alessandro - Jean Monnet Chair - 2005

Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...

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Laïcité in the Low Countries? On Headscarves in a Neutral State

Maris, Cees - Jean Monnet Chair - 2007

institutions as examples of divergent liberal legal cultures and national policies towards immigrant minorities. It shows that in … France the principle of laïcité or state secularity resulted in a legal prohibition of Islamic headscarves in public schools …

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From Millet to Nation: The Limits of Consociational Resolutions for Middle East Conflict

Shields, Sarah - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2010

This paper argues that Europeans worked to transform the bases for group affiliation in territories of the former Ottoman Empire, insisting on national and linguistic self-identification that created dissonance among the population. Focusing on the decades between the two World Wars, when the...

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Mesurer les discriminations selon l'apparence : une analyse des contrôles d'identité à Paris

Jobard, Fabien; Lévy, René; Lamberth, John; Névanen, … - In: Population (french edition) 67 (2012) 3, pp. 423-451

This article sets out the main results of a survey conducted by the Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice Institutions (CESDIP; CI Survey) and the Open Society Institute (OSI) to establish whether the identity checks made by Parisian law enforcement officers reflect ethnic...

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