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| Author |
Halasz, Ivan (ed.) Ieda, Osamu (ed.) Kantor, Zoltan (ed.) Majtenyi, Balazs (ed.) Vizi, Balazs (ed.) |
|---|---|
| Title | The Hungarian Status Law : Nation Building and/or Minority Protection |
| Parallel title / Title of generic unit | |
| Subject | 1. Minorities-Legal status, laws, etc.-Hungary. 2. Citizenship-Hungary. 3. Hungarians-Foreign countries-Ethnic identity. 4. Hungary-Ethnic relations. |
| Publisher | Sapporo: Slavic Research Center (Hokkaido University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 627 |
| Description | The topic of this book is kin minority, kin-state and home-state in the process of European integration, focusing on East and Central Europe, and specifically on the Hungarian Status Law. The set of the three notions - kin minority, kin-state and home-state - is a recent creation of the Venice Commission in its official report on the Treatment of National Minorities by their Kin-State released in 2001. The topic has evoked fierce debates between the states of the region, which have been especially sensitive to the issue of national and ethnic minorities since the collapse of the communist regimes. However, the scope of the debate extended much more widely, involving the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE and so forth, and these West European concerns were prompted not only by the conflicts between Hungary and her neighbours, but also by aspects of the Status Law which those agencies saw as inherently problematic. Thus, the topic was a hot political issue in the countries directly affected and in Europe-wide diplomacy as well, and it still may hold the banked coal for another fire. Moreover, this could be a long-term prospect according to the report of the Venice Commission, which suggested that the Hungarian case was the tip of an iceberg. For East and Central European countries have established status law one after another since the second half of the 1990s. The selection of works and documents in this book, while focusing on the Hungarian Status Law, takes into account similar legislation in the neighbouring countries as well. Among them, so far, Slovenia, Slovakia and Romania have passed specific laws on the preferential treatment of kin-minorities. Their English versions are reprinted along with other useful documents in this book. |
| Type | |
| Note | Includes bibliography. Also includes Chronology and Documents section. CONTENTS: Introduction / Post-communist Nation Building and the Status Law Syndrome in Hungary, by Osamu Ieda / The History of Relations Between Hungarian governments and Ethnic Hungarians Living Beyond the Borders of Hungary, by Nandor Bardi / Citizenship and Ethnicity: The Hungarian Status Law, by George Schöpflin / Status Law and 'Nation Policy': Theoretical Aspects, by Zoltan Kantor / The Hunarian Status Law: A New European Form of Transnational Politics?, by Michael Stewart / The Status Law: Hungary at the Crossroads, by Janos Kis / Fuzzing Citizenship, Nationalising Political Space: A Framework for Interpreting the Hungarian 'Status Law' as a New Form of Kin-state Policy in Central and Eastern Europe, by Brigid Fowler / Dual Citizenship and Policies toward Kin-Minorities in East-Central Europe: A Comparison between Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Moldova, by Constantin Iordachi / Nationalist Strategies and European Integration, by Zsuzsa Csergo and James Goldgeier / The Status Law in the Hungarian-Slovakian Context, by Miroslav Kusy / Hungary's Controversial Status Law, by Herbert Küpper / A New Regime of Minority Protection? Preferential treatment of Kin-minorities under National and International Law, by Ivan Halasz, Balazs Majtenyi and Balazs Vizi / The Kin-State and Its Minorities: Which European Standards? The Hungarian Status Law: Its Antecedents and Consequences / What Did the Venice Commission Actually Say?, by Laszlo Solyom / Connections of Kin-minorities to the Kin-state in the Extended Schengen Zone, by Judit Toth / The Hungarian Legislation on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries, by Kinga Gal / An Analysis of the 'Act on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries' and the Validity of Measures Protecting and Promoting the Culture and Identity of Minorities Outside Hungary, by Fernand de Varennes / The Characteristics of Cultural Minority Rights in International Law - With Special Reference to the Hungarian Status Law, by Eniko Felfoldi / Legislative Aspects and Political Excuses: Hungarian-Romanian Disagreements on the 'Act on Hungarians Living in Neighbouring Countries', by Attila Varga / Chronology / Documents: / Hungarian Status Law / Hungarian Standing Conference / Bilateral Instruments / International Organizations / status Laws of Neighbouring Countries / Bibliography / Index / Authors |
| Language | English |
| Series | Slavic Eurasian Studies, 4 |
| Identifier | 4938637332 |
| Call No. |
341.4 '81947 |
| Location |
Library |
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