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2024-11-11
ECMI Minorities Blog. The Diverse Ways of Managing the Language Question in Finnish-Swedish SportSami Koskelainen
Swedish is one of Finland’s two official languages, but it is spoken as a mother tongue only by a minority. Finland’s language policy has traditionally been founded on separate language-specific institutions. This principle is also evident in sports, where Finnish-Swedes generally established their own clubs separate from the language majority. This blog post investigates how Finland’s language policy and linguistic relations have been manifested historically and contemporarily in Finnish-Swedish sports. On one hand, Finnish-Swedish sports have national structures and organisations, giving Svenskfinland a tangible presence in the sporting world. On the other hand, Finnish-Swedish clubs each have to negotiate local linguistic contexts in their own way. In bilingual areas with relatively equally sized language communities, cooperation has recently prevailed over animosity – language difference has been something to overcome rather than stubbornly uphold.
2024-11-05
Exploring Crimean Tatar Resilience: Insights from the ECMI-ZOiS-IWM WorkshopElmira Muratova recently took part in the workshop “New Research on Crimean Tatars: Post-2014 Challenges and Strategies,” organized by the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in collaboration with the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM).
2024-11-03
Kongehusets forhold til mindretallet er usvækketDer var store håb og forventninger, da kong Frederik X aflagde sit første statsbesøg i Tyskland den 21. - 22. oktober 2024.
En ny monark på tronen kan dog altid vække lidt usikkerhed. Margrethe var dronning i 52 år. Den stabilitet og styrke, hendes støtte gav til mindretallet, skulle nu videreføres af hendes søn; men ville kong Frederik bekræfte Danmarks og monarkiets fortsatte støtte på samme vis?
Læs den nyeste kronik af vores kollega Erik Kühl (udgivet i Flensborg Avis den 2. November 2024)
2024-10-23
ECMI staff presents at the International Symposium on Language Ideologies and Attitudes (IDEOLING) in Palma de MallorcaIt was the first symposium of its kind, fully focused on language attitudes and ideologies. The event was filled with experts and young researchers in the field, offering a great opportunity for networking and exchanging ideas.
