multiculturalism
The debate on multiculturalism is a discourse that represents, interprets and evaluates social experiences of diversity and difference. It was articulated in the construction of multiculturalism social identities, in opposition...Author: Bárdi Nándor
Mureș-Hungarian Autonomous Region
The administrative reform implemented in Romania at the end of 1960 also had a significant impact on the Hungarian Autonomous Region. The province was renamed Mureș-Hungarian Autonomous Region (Regiunea Mureș-Autonomă...Author: Zahorán Csaba
National clause of responsibility
Compatriot, diaspora, kin-state care clauses for its kin-minorities abroad in constitutions. We could find references to the responsibility towards compatriots and kin-minorities abroad mainly in Eastern and Central European constitutions....Author: Halász Iván
national cohesion / national unity
The national cohesion / national unity is the basic political principle which despite political and social differences sees Hungarians living in dispersion as members of the same national cultural and...Author: Kántor Zoltán
national minorities in Europe
Determining the exact number of national and ethnic minorities in some European countries is difficult, as many countries do not collect ethnic data on their own population for political, historical...Author: Bárdi Nándor, Gyurcsík Iván, Vizi Balázs
national minority self-government system in Hungary
The three-level – municipal, regional and national – representative forum of the nationalities living in Hungary declared in the Fundamental Law is the most important infrastructural guarantee of cultural autonomy...Author: Szalayné Sándor Erzsébet
National policy
After World War 1, about a third of the Hungarians living in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy came under foreign rule. This inevitably influenced the subsequent policy of the Hungarian governments: the...Author: Zahorán Csaba
nationalism
nationalism as a neutral concept of social science refers to the institutionalisation of majority and minority societies on a national basis. Since the 18th and 19th century societies have been...Author: Kántor Zoltán
nationalities in Hungary
The Constitution of the Republic of Hungary, amended in 1989 within a democratic framework and in force until the last day of 2011, declared for the first time in Hungarian...Author: Szalayné Sándor Erzsébet
nationality advocate / spokesperson
According to the provisions of Act CIII of 2011 on the Election of Members of Parliament, since 2014 the nationality advocate / spokesperson, together with the nationality MP, is a...Author: Szalayné Sándor Erzsébet
number of nationalities in Hungary
In the 2011 Census data on nationalities were collected in four aspects: nationality, mother tongue, language used in family and among friends, and cultural affiliation / ties. Act CLXXIX of...Author: Gyurcsík Iván
oktatási-nevelési támogatás
A Szülőföldön magyarul program keretében a szülőföldjén magyar oktatásban résztvevő óvodás és iskolás gyermekek a 2002/2003-as tanév óta részesülnek nevelési, oktatási, valamint tankönyv- és taneszköz-támogatásban (ismertebb nevén: oktatási-nevelési támogatásban), melynek...Author: Kántor Zoltán
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
At the Helsinki follow-up meeting in 1992 the Member States of the CSCE (OSCE) decided to set up the Office of the High Commissioner for National Minorities. The High Commissioner...Author: Vizi Balázs
Paris minority treaties
In the final stages of World War 1, the right of peoples to self-determinationtook on great importance, and the Entente powers and their allies included the assertion of this right...Author: Zahorán Csaba
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) – recommendations and reports on national minorities
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is the deliberative body of the Strasbourg-based multilateral organisation, which was founded in 1949 and today has 47 members. In the Convention...Author: Gyurcsík Iván
parliamentary representation
The participation of nationalities and national minorities in public affairs and their political representation in parliaments is the subject of several international documents (the UN Declaration on the Rights of...Author: Gyurcsík Iván
participation of national minorities in public life
The (effective) participation of national minorities in public affairs is mentioned and referred to in several international documents. These include Article 35 of the document adopted at the 1990 Copenhagen...Author: Gyurcsík Iván
Pentagonic Nexus
Rogers Brubaker’s triadic nexus—which links national minorities, nationalizing states, and external national homelands—can also be applied in the field of diaspora studies, but it should be augmented with at least...Author: Gazsó Dániel
PERSONAL AUTONOMY AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY IN SERBIA
Personal autonomy, also referred to as cultural autonomy, has been one of the most important topics in the political life of Hungarian communities beyond the borders of Hungary from the...Author: Palusek Erik
Personal names of minorities before the ECtHR
The use of personal names is a specific border area of minority language use, which, as part of personal identity, is basically rooted in the private sphere (as such it...Author: Nagy Noémi
Petőfi Sándor Program
The Petőfi Sándor Program was launched in 2015 by the State Secretariat for Hungarian Communities Abroad, based on the model of the already existed Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program. The main...Author: Gazsó Dániel
Policy of „korenizacije” in Soviet Union
The term comes from the Russian language, where indigenous, indigenous peoples are referred to as “korennije. The policy of “korenizacije was continued by the post-civil war Soviet Bolshevik leadership in...Author: Halász Iván
political organisations of Hungarian minorities
The political organisations of Hungarian minorities are the most important political advocacy organisations in the 100-year history of minority Hungarian communities. The National Christian Socialist Party and the Hungarian National...Author: Bárdi Nándor
political parties of ethnic minorities
Political mobilisation based on ethnic, national or linguistic identity is based on the defence of the identity of the minority community against the state’s policies aimed at assimilation or globalization...Author: Vizi Balázs