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dc.contributor.authorKOOPMANS, Ruud
dc.contributor.authorORGAD, Liav
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-27T09:56:56Z
dc.date.available2021-04-27T09:56:56Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/70941
dc.description.abstractMulticulturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present two areas in which majorities may become culturally vulnerable and need legal protection: the regulation of immigration and representations of national identity in the public sphere. The core of the argument is rooted in a unique framework to address majority-minority constellations. This “intergroup differentiation approach” distinguishes between “homeland majorities” and “migratory majorities”, alongside the traditional distinction of indigenous/national and migratory minorities. In doing so, the authors criticize the tendency in the multiculturalism literature to gloss over differences between the Anglo-Saxon classical immigration countries, where majorities are of migratory origin, and the countries of the Old World, where new minorities of immigrant origin face indigenous majorities. The authors provide practical examples for the implementation of their approach and explain the different meanings of cultural majority rights. Only by a contextualized and relational consideration of groups, they thus conclude, can competing demands of majorities and minorities be fairly evaluateden
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dc.publisherWZB Berlin Social Science Centeren
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWZB Discussion Paperen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2020/104en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectMajority rightsen
dc.subjectMinority rightsen
dc.subjectNationalismen
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen
dc.subjectPopulismen
dc.subjectJ15en
dc.subjectK33en
dc.subjectK37en
dc.titleMajority-minority constellations : towards a group-differentiated approachen
dc.typeWorking Paperen


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