(Hidden) Minorities: Language and Ethnic Identity Between Central Europe and the Balkans

ISBN-10: 3643500963
ISBN-13: 9783643500960
Category: Balkan Peninsula
Pages: 282
Language: English
Published: 2009
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Authors: Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik, Christian Promitzer, Eduard Staudinger

Description

This book asks why several ethnic and linguistic groups in Central Europe and the Balkans have not yet been legally recognized as national minorities. Some of these hidden minorities have not developed an intellectual elite that can visibly present their identity and claims to the majority population. Other groups are deliberately concealing their existence and language for reasons of self-protection. The chapters in this volume address the everyday mechanisms of hiding and being hidden in the transition zone of these two European regions.

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