ISBN : 9782296552432
NATIONAL HOMOGENIZATION AND ETHNIC REPRODUCTION ON THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY
I want to begin by addressing the concept of minorities, in accordance with the focus of this conference. That concept covers a whole world of heterogeneous phenomena, so after these conceptual preliminaries, I will focus my attention on one kind of minority : on national minorities generated not by the by the movement of people over borders, but on the movement of borders over people. I will address the relation between national homogenization and what I will call'ethnic reproduction,' meaning the reproduction over time of populations identifying as members of national minorities. I will focus empirically on the Hungarian minority in Transylvania, though the processes I will describe are more general ones. I will conclude by asking whether the processes...