The collective volume Muslims in 21st Century Europe, edited by Anna Triandafyllidou,  explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in various European countries with a view to highlighting different paths of integration of immigrant and native Muslims.
Starting with a critical overview of the institutionalisation of Islam in Europe and a discussion on the nature of Muslimophobia as a social phenomenon [More..]

This volume explores the role of the ECtHR  in  protecting marginalised individuals and minorities. What factors and conditions have led growing numbers of such individuals and minorities to pursue their rights and freedoms in front of the ECtHR and how has the latter responded to these? Does the Convention and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg Court enhance the protection of vulnerable groups and expand their rights? Or do they mainly tend to fill in relatively minor gaps or occasional lapses in national rights guarantees? [More..]

Policy Briefs

Title:	Policy Report on the Austrian Region of Burgenland
Authors:	Brigitta Busch
Publication type:	Policy Report
Publication date:	March 2007
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Title:	Policy Report on the Hungarian Minority in Slovakia
Authors:	Darina Malová & Aneta Világi
Publication type:	Policy report
Publication date:	January 2007
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Title:	Policy Report on the Case of the Basque Country
Authors:	Pedro Ibarra & Igor Filibi
Publication type:	Policy report
Publication date:	November 2006
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Title:	Policy Report: Regions, minorities and European integration: Recommendations for regional development strategies at the Italo-Slovene border.
Authors:	Enrica Rigo
Publication type:	Policy report
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Title:	Policy Brief: The Muslims of Western Thrace, Greece. Recommendations for regional development strategies
Authors:	Dia Anagnostou and Anna Triandafyllidou
Publication type:	Policy report
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Title:	Policy paper on Muslim minorities (Turks and Muslim Bulgarians) in the South Central Region of Bulgaria
Authors:	Galina Lozanova & Marko Hajdinjak
Publication type:	Policy report
Publication date:	December 2006
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Title:	Policy report on Minorities and the EU: Human Rights, Regional Development and Beyond
Authors:	Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
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Title:	Policy report on the case of Northern Ireland
Authors:	Atsuko Ichijo
Publication type:	Policy report
Publication date:	November 2006
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Title:	Policy report on the Hungarian Minority in Szekely Land, Romania
Authors:	Alina Mungiu Pippidi
Publication type:	Policy report
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Title:	Policy report on the Italian Minority in Slovenian Istria
Authors:	Ksenija Sabec
Publication type:	Policy report
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In this book, Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, examines the impact of improving EU-Turkey relations on Turkish political culture since Turkey became a candidate for EU membership in 1999. While a multi-party political system was introduced in Turkey in 1946, political liberalism was the missing part of Turkey’s democratic consolidation. Turkish political culture valued submissiveness toward state authority and did not favor citizen participation. This study evaluates the impact that Turkey’s EU-motivated political reform had on civil society, state-society relations, the role of religion in politics and national identity. This leads to an assessment of whether Turkish political culture has become more participant. [More..]

MIGSYS – Project Reports

Title:	Immigration to the USA: The case of Mexicans in California
Authors:	Alisa Garni & Arpi Miller
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to Hungary: The case of Ukrainians
Authors:	Andrea Gereöffy
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to Poland: The case of Ukrainians
Authors:	Krystyna Iglicka & Agnieszka Weinar
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to Germany: The case of Poles
Authors:	Frauke Miera
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to Greece: The case of Poles
Authors:	Anna Triandafyllidou & Ruby Gropas
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to Spain: The case of Moroccans
Authors:	Ricard Zapata Barrero
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to the UK: The case of Turks
Authors:	Mark Thomson
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to the USA: The case of Mexicans
Authors:	Uma A. Segal
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to Canada: The case of Mexicans
Authors:	Usha George and Julie Young
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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Title:	Immigration to Italy: The case of Ukrainians
Authors:	Cristina Montefusco, Rosanna Gullà & Natale Losi
Publication type:	Project report
Publication date:	July 2006
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The ESF exploratory workshop on migration studied whether and how the implementation of specific policies affects the plans and actions of individual migrants (and their families). It brought together sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and international relations experts who work in the area of migration studies at both sides of the Atlantic. Each scientist presented a pilot case study looking at how much information migrants have on migration management/control and migrant integration policies; whether they take into account such policies and what are the results of this ‘interaction’ between migrants’ own plans and needs and the actual policies and in particular their implementation. [More..]

Athens 2-3 June 2006

ELIAMEP in cooperation with Kingston University and the University of Siena organised an international workshop on The European Court of Human Rights, protection of civil rights and minorities: state compliance and domestic reform. The workshop was funded by the European Commission, DG Education and Culture, Jean Monnet Action. [More..]

The transformation of the character of the European Union and the diffusion of European norms facilitated a drastic improvement of minority rights in Greece in the 1990s. Nonetheless, significant problems have persisted, which have undermined the credibility of the role model that Greece wishes to comprise for neighbouring EU candidate states. The situation was different in the 1990s when Turkey’s EU candidacy gained impetus. The promulgation of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 meant that respect for minority rights became a condition for EU membership. It is argued in this study that minority rights protection in Greece and Turkey remains one of the fields where Europeanization has triggered considerable progress, but not fulfilled its full potential. The asymmetry between current and past EU membership criteria led Greece and Turkey to diverse experiences of Europeanization in the field of minority rights.

Read the whole article published in Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2008, pp. 23-41.

Elite-driven constructivist analyses, and more specifically historical institutionalist approach, trace how state institutions and the context of strategic interaction that they provide over time lead rationally-motivated leaders to vest a strong interest into politicizing nationalism and diffusing it among the society at large.
But, what is the nature of ethnic belonging, how is it forged and reproduced, why does it resonate among the community at large? This is a central interest of this paper.
Constructivist analyses of ethnic politicization expose how political leaders chose to appropriate symbols and grievances in order to frame problems in ethnic terms. [More..]