Identity Captured by Law

Membership in Canada's Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities

Bibliographic Data

ID2708922
AuthorsSébastien Grammond
Year2009
Pages240
Publication date2009-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIdentity Captured by Law (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780773576292
OpenAlexW4404154135
Open LibraryOL33400871M
ISBN9780773576292
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammond explains how minority rights make identity legally relevant, providing a detailed account of struggles that have been fought concerning Indian status and admission to minority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the law in the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology and political theory, Grammond assesses whether a group's membership rules are an accurate reflection of their ethnicity and are based on sound justifications of minority rights. He argues that membership rules do not violate equality rights if there is sufficient correspondence between the legal criteria that determine membership and the group's own cultural or relational conceptions of their ethnic identity. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and original in its comparison of indigenous peoples and linguistic minorities, Identity Captured by Law is an invaluable resource for legal and political scholars and students, as well as anyone interested in the controversies surrounding the legal recognition of identity

Aesthetics · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · canada · Human rights · Indians of North America · Indigenous peoples · Linguistic minorities

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