Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium.

• Author: Fottrell, Deirdre.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bowring, Bill.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1999.; ©1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Multicultural Citizenship: A More Viable Framework for Minority Rights? -- Introduction -- The Problem of Definition in International Law -- More Recent European and International Norm-Creation -- A Liberal Understanding of Minority Rights -- The Theory Behind the Intransigence -- Critics of Liberalism -- The Possible Contribution of Realist Social Theory -- Conclusion -- 2. The Construction and Contingency of the Minority Concept -- Introduction -- Human Categories and Group Identity -- Overview of the Extant Norms -- The Construction of Difference -- Individuals and Collectivities -- Definitions of Minorities -- The Construction of Human Categories -- Cultural Criteria for Minority Identification -- The Racial Paradigm as a Legal Construct -- The Racial Paradigm as a Socio-Scientific Construct -- The Dialectics of Group Identification -- Challenges of Exclusion: The Example of Sexual Minorities -- The Socio-Scientific Concept of Sexual Minorities -- The Legal Concept of Sexual Minorities -- Towards Reconstruction -- Conclusion -- 3. Of Minors and Minorities -- Introduction -- Shared Characteristics -- Raising Standards of Protection -- Children's Minority and Group Rights -- Implementation -- Conclusion -- 4. Ascertaining a Minority Linguistic Group: Ireland as a Case-Study -- Introduction -- The Application of Contemporary Minority Linguistic Theory to Speakers of the Irish Language -- Towards a Definition of 'Minority' -- Minority Rights: To Individuals or to Groups? -- Affirmative or Positive Action -- Summary of the Relevant International Mechanisms under which Ireland has Assumed Obligations -- The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) -- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) -- The Validity of International Protection at Universal Level -- Outline of European Policy on Linguistic Minorities -- The 'Conflict' between National and Minority -- Conclusion -- 5. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Some Reflections from a Scottish Gaelic Perspective -- Introduction -- The Scottish Gaels -- The Charter -- Guidance Provided by the Developing Law of Indigenous Peoples -- Summary -- 6. Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: Old Dilemmas, New Solutions? -- Introduction -- Old Dilemmas -- New Solutions? -- Judicially Enforceable Rights vs Programme-Type Commitments -- The Legacy of the Past -- Other Objections -- Conclusions -- Postscript -- 7. The Human Rights and Minority Rights of the Kurds -- Introduction -- International Legal Obligations -- Turkish Constitutional and Legislative Provisions -- Extra-Legal Methods Used to Suppress the Kurdish Minority -- Legal Methods -- The Cases -- The Role of the Media -- The Role of Education -- The Problem of Political Participation -- The Destruction of Villages in South-east Turkey -- Conclusion -- 8. Ever Decreasing Circles: Affirmative Action and Special Measures under International Law -- Section 1 - What Does Affirmative Action Mean? -- Section 2 - Equality and Non discrimination under International Law -- The Discrimination Treaties -- Section 3 - Affirmative Action in the United States -- Conclusion -- 9. Educational Rights and the Definition of Minorities -- 10. Problems in Defining Minorities -- Section 1 - Introduction -- Section 2 - Understandings At The Universal And European Levels -- Section 3 - Some Conceptual Considerations -- The 'Individual Rights' Versus 'Collective Rights' Debate -- The Issue of Classification and/or Limitation by Type or Feature -- The Underlying Objective of Minority Rights.

Section 4 - The Problems -- The Problem in General -- Some Specific Problems -- Section 5 - Conclusions -- Contributors -- Index.