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Author : Ronald De McLaurin
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046845106
Author : Ofra Bengio,Gabriel Ben-Dor
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555876471
This text offers a comprehensive discussion of minorities and ethnic politics in eight Arab countries. Focusing on the strategic political chaos made by minorities, majorities and regimes in power, the authors point to probable future developments in majority-minority relations in the region.
Author : Joshua Castellino,Kathleen A. Cavanaugh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191668883
Within the Middle East there are a wide range of minority groups outside the mainstream religious and ethnic culture. This book provides a detailed examination of their rights as minorities within this region, and their changing status throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The rights of minorities in the Middle East are subject to a range of legal frameworks, having developed in part from Islamic law, and in recent years subject to international human rights law and institutional frameworks. The book examines the context in which minority rights operate within this conflicted region, investigating how minorities engage with (or are excluded from) various sites of power and how state practice in dealing with minorities (often ostensibly based on Islamic authority) intersects with and informs modern constitutionalism and international law. The book identifies who exactly can be classed as a minority group, analysing in detail the different religious and ethnic minorities across the region. The book also pays special attention to the plight of minorities who are spread between various states, often as the result of conflict. It assesses the applicable domestic legislative instruments within the three countries investigated as case studies: Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, and highlights key domestic remedies that could serve as models for ensuring greater social cohesion and greater inclusion of minorities in the political life of these countries.
Author : Mordechai Nisan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786451333
The struggle for independence by minorities in the Middle East (those people who are non-Arab or non-Muslim) is affecting the political climate around the world. War and terrorism are threatening the safety of many minority communities and repression of minorities still remains standard state policy in some countries. This updated and revised edition of the 1991 original provides a wealth of historical and political detail for all the indigenous peoples of the Middle East. Pressed to persist in a threatening environment, these minorities (Kurds, Berbers, Baluchi, Druzes, 'Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Maronites, Sudanese Christians, Jews, Egyptian Copts, and others) share similar experiences and have been known to cooperate for shared goals. Important events and new trends regarding the welfare of these groups are covered, and numerous oral histories add to the new edition. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Paolo Maggiolini,Idir Ouahes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030543990
This book offers fresh insights to enhance and diversify our understanding of the modern history of the state and societies in today’s Jordan, while also providing examples of why and how scholars can challenge the static and discursively government-minded approaches to minorities and minoritisation – especially the traditional emphasis on demographic balances. Despite its small size and initial appearance of homogeneity, Jordan provides an excellent case of a dynamic, relational, historically contingent and fluid approach to ethnic, political and religious minorities in the context of the imposition of a modern state system on complex and varied traditional societies. The editors and contributors present dynamic and relational perspectives on the status of and historical processes involved in the creation and absorption of minority groups within Jordan.
Author : Will Kymlicka,Eva Pföstl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317205500
Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their vision of reform, implying that these issues are best deferred to some indefinite future. While many people describe the Arab Spring as a ‘battle for pluralism’, there is a reluctance to discuss what this pluralism might actually mean for the political claims of minorities, for fear of triggering divisive conflicts and undemocratic tendencies. Is there an alternative to this fearful deferral of minority politics? Can we imagine ‘transformative minority politics’ – that is, a form of minority politics that strengthens democratic reform in the region, and that helps deepen a culture of human rights and democratic citizenship? This volume explores whether this is indeed a realistic prospect in the Middle East and North Africa, examining cases that include the Amazigh in North Africa, the Copts in Egypt, the Kurds in Iraq, the Palestinians in Israel, the ‘minoritarian’ regimes in Syria and Bahrain, and various ethnic minorities in Iran. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Author : Milton J. Esman,Itamar Rabinovich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501745751
A timely and innovative discussion of the role that ethnicity plays in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs, Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East is the first systematic exploration of this important dimension in the social life, statecraft, politics, and international relations in the region.
Author : Will Kymlicka,Eva Pföstl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199675135
Explores the obstacles to multiculturalism and minority rights in Arab states, including the history of European manipulation of minority politics.
Author : Benjamin Thomas White
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748688937
This book uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'.
Author : Anne Sofie Roald,Anh Nga Longva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004216846
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.
Author : Attila Kovács,Katarína Šomodiová
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527526310
Relations among minorities and majorities, whether religious, ethnic, cultural or other, have been a triggering factor of social dynamics all over the world for millennia. Indeed, their relevance has further grown in recent decades due to turbulent politics and rapidly changing social relations. The Middle East and Asia have traditionally been home to a vast array of religious and ethnic groups, yet a series of both armed and ideological conflicts have begun to re-shape their classic complex social composition. This volume offers valuable insights into the issue of minorities in various geographical and political settings, from the Uyghurs of China and the modern Christian movements of India to the Romas and Dervishes of early 20th century Iran, the Mandaeans of Mesopotamia, and the Muslims of Western Europe.
Author : Paul S Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317233794
The Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East gathers a diverse team of international scholars, each of whom provides unique expertise into the status and prospects of minority populations in the region. The dramatic events of the past decade, from the Arab Spring protests to the rise of the Islamic state, have brought the status of these populations onto centre stage. The overturn of various long-term autocratic governments in states such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and the ongoing threat to government stability in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon have all contributed to a new assertion of majoritarian politics amid demands for democratization and regime change. In the midst of the dramatic changes and latent armed conflict, minority populations have been targeted, marginalized, and victimized. Calls for social and political change have led many to contemplate the ways in which citizenship and governance may be changed to accommodate minorities – or indeed if such change is possible. At a time when the survival of minority populations and the utility of the label minority has been challenged, this handbook answers the following set of research questions.What are the unique challenges of minority populations in the Middle East? How do minority populations integrate into their host societies, both as a function of their own internal choices, and as a response to majoritarian consensus on their status? Finally, given their inherent challenges, and the vast, sweeping changes that have taken place in the region over the past decade, what is the future of these minority populations? What impact have minority populations had on their societies, and to what extent will they remain prominent actors in their respective settings? This handbook presents leading-edge research on a wide variety of religious, ethnic, and other minority populations. By reclaiming the notion of minorities in Middle Eastern settings, we seek to highlight the agency of minority communities in defining their past, present, and future.
Author : Miaad Hassan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793606402
The author explores the process and outcome of ethnic identity on nation-building and ethnic conflict. It sheds light on the question of how minorities position and represent themselves during and after regime transitions and the dilemmas that minorities present for regime change and how social cleavages shape their preferences and identities.
Author : Roberta Medda-Windischer,Caitlin Boulter,Tove H. Malloy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429956171
This comprehensive and innovative volume focuses on the usefulness and relevance of extending the scope of protections already in place for national minorities ('old minorities') to migrant populations ('new minorities') in Europe. Delving into a highly relevant but under-researched issue, the book examines the feasibility of expanding the system of protection for national minorities to migrant groups, as well as considering issues of diversity, security, socio-economic concerns and identity. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, and combining insights from political science, law, sociology and anthropology, it asks the central question of how far the extension of policies and rights currently specific to national minorities is conceptually meaningful and beneficial to the integration of ‘new’ minorities. In doing so, it questions the feasibility and appropriateness of extending the scope of the protections already in place for national minorities to other categories of population. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of European Union politics, migration studies, minority studies and more broadly of sociology, international law and human rights.
Author : Olgun Akbulut,Elçin Aktoprak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004405455
This volume, Minority Self-Government in Europe and theMiddle East: From Theory to Practice, is novel from several perspectives. It combines theory with facts on the ground, going beyond legal perspectives without neglecting existing laws and their implementation.
