Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights Hungarians in Transylvania [Hardcover]

This book provides an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of the major social and political processes affecting Hungarians in Romania after the overthrow of the Communist regime in 1989. The volume highlights the interdependence between the ethno-political strategies of minority elites and Romania's minority policy regime on the one hand, and social processes such as ethnic boundary making and ethnic stratification on the other.

The chapters combine perspectives from a variety of disciplines including political science and the sociology of ethnic relations, supported by the findings of  a broad array of empirical investigations carried out in Transylvania. It will therefore be of particular interest to scholars and students with a focus on minority politics, ethnic mobilization and nationalism, as well as researchers of ethnic relations, ethnic boundary making, social distances and ethnic inequalities. 

 

Introduction. Unequal Accommodation, Ethnic Parallelism and Increasing Marginality; Tam?s Kiss. - 1. Minority Political Agency in Historical Perspective: Periodization and Key Problems; N?ndor B?rdi & Tam?s Kiss. - 2. Unequal Accommodation: An Institutionalist Analysis of Ethnic Claim-Making and Bargaining; Tam?s Kiss, Tibor Tor?  Istv?n GergQ Sz?kely. - 3. Language Use, Language Policy and Language Rights; Istv?n Horv?th  Tibor Tor?. - 4. Ethnic Parallelism: Political Program and Social Reality: An Introduction; Tam?s Kiss  D?nes Kiss. - 5. Hungarian Language Education: Legal Framework, Institutional Structure and Assessment of School Performances; Attila Z. Papp, J?nos M?rton, Istv?n GergQ Sz?kely  GergQ Barna. - 6. Churches and Religious Life; D?nelS-