The new minority rights regime in Poland
The experience of the German, Belarussian and Jewish minorities since 1989
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6306962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Fleming (0000-0001-8410-3119, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 531-548 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1469-8219.00064 |
| OpenAlex | W2001465475 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In the post–communist period national minorities have returned to the international agenda. For Poland, as for other applicants to the European Union, the treatment of national minorities is proving to be a litmus test for accession. In this article I argue that national minorities have benefited from the new minority rights regime, but I show that each minority’s ability to voice its concerns and develop its community is predicated upon the accumulation of political and financial capital. Drawing upon the experience of the German, Belarussian and Jewish minorities in post–communist Poland, I argue that political capital has been accrued through the ballot box and through scalar strategies of empowerment. Those minorities that have been unable to raise their stock of capital (namely the Belarussians) have seen themselves marginalised socially, culturally and economically despite the guarantees of the new minority rights regime to promote and protect them
Capital (architecture · Communism · German · Judaism · Litmus · Minority rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Public Administration
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Transnational ties and ethnic activism
The Limits of the German Minority Project in Post-communist Poland
Germans in Wroclaw
The Regime of Violence in Socialist and Postsocialist Poland
Types of democracy and modes of conflict management in ethnically divided societies
Engineering inclusion
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2023 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |