Bárdi Nándor
antecedents to kin-state policy
The term kin-state policy was used in a dual sense from the second half of the nineteenth century. On the one hand it was applied to the political aspirations of...Author: Bárdi Nándor
assimilation
assimilation is a social process whereby a minority group or individual adopts the values and behavioural patterns of the majority group. As a result of this process, the majority group...Author: Bárdi Nándor
Bethlen Gábor Fund
A separate public fund set up in April 2011 to help achieve the objectives of the Hungarian Government’s kin-state policy strategy. Its funds are managed by Bethlen Gábor Fund Management...Author: Bárdi Nándor, Kántor Zoltán
collective guilt
collective guilt is the principle formulated after the Second World War that the German people as a whole were responsible for the war and that, consequently, the people as a...Author: Bárdi Nándor
democracy and the minority question
In a liberal democracy based on equal suffrage, if political fault lines appear along ethnic or national identity lines, minorities have minor chance of gaining a role in government. Democracy,...Author: Bárdi Nándor, Kántor Zoltán
diaspora
The term diaspora is used to describe geographically dispersed communities of migrant origin that are integrated into their surrounding society, but not fully assimilated, and are connected to related communities...Author: Bárdi Nándor
dispersion
The concept of dispersion has no uniform definition. In the interpretation of Hungarian kin-state policy, dispersion is any local minority or community organised on ethnic, national or religious grounds, which...Author: Bárdi Nándor
economic development aid
Since the mid-1990s it has become clear that the programme of prosperity in one’s native land, which was formulated in 1994, can be successfully achieved not only by supporting the...Author: Bárdi Nándor
ethno-politics in Europe
The ethno-political models that have emerged in multicultural countries can be divided into those that aim to eliminate differences and those that manage differences. The most extreme form of the...Author: Bárdi Nándor
Government Office for Hungarian Minorities Abroad (Határon Túli Magyarok Hivatala – HTMH)
It was established in 1992 as a central office with autonomous management powers (by Government Decree 90/1992. [(V. 29.) ]) and ceased to exist on 31 December 2006 (based on...Author: Bárdi Nándor
historical reconciliation
In parallel with the processes of economic and political integration in Western Europe – after German unification and the break-up of the Soviet Union – the Central European system of...Author: Bárdi Nándor
historical typology of European minorities
Historically European minorities can be placed into four categories. Indigenous, autochtonous minorities have been living continuously in their current areas of residence; they did so even before the emergence of...Author: Bárdi Nándor
Homeland Fund (Szülőföld Alap)
Since 1994 prosperity in one’s native land has become a commonly used kin-state policy goal. The idea that the marginalisation of Hungarians living beyond the borders can be helped by...Author: Bárdi Nándor
Hungarian literature on national minority issues
Databases Hungarian Data Bank in Slovakia http://adatbank.sk/ Hungarian Cultural Institute of Transcarpathia http://kmmi.org.ua/ Transcarpathian Scientific Data Bank http://karpataljaiadatbank.net/ Transylvanian Hungarian Data Bank http://adatbank.ro/ Hungarian Digital Data Repository of Vojvodina http://adattar.vmmi.org/...Author: Bárdi Nándor
Illyés Public Foundation (Illyés Közalapítvány – IKA)
In order to provide support for Hungarians living beyond the border from the Hungarian state budget the Secretariat of the Ethnic and Nationality College of the Németh government established the...Author: Bárdi Nándor
kin-state (motherland)
kin-state (motherland) (motherland) is a state in which the majority of the population forms an ethnic or cultural community with a minority in another country. Its foreign ties also include...Author: Bárdi Nándor
kin-state policy
kin-state policy is the Hungarian state’s policy towards Hungarians beyond the borders – in neighbouring countries and in other countries of the world – which strengthens the relationship between the...Author: Bárdi Nándor, Kántor Zoltán
kin-state policy in the system of priorities of the Antall government (1990-1994)
The Antall government’s foreign policy was defined by three priorities: 1. Euro-Atlantic integration, 2. putting the neighbourhood policy on a new footing, and 3. representing the interests of Hungarians living...Author: Bárdi Nándor
minority marginalisation
Social and demographic processes cannot be disconnected from the political and institutional framework that determines the daily life of the minority community. In the modern nation-state, which cannot be culturally...Author: Bárdi Nándor
minority society
It is an ethnically self-organising institutional structure which creates “minority worlds” in the sociological sense within a given country, its own institutions operating in the mother tongue, so that the...Author: Bárdi Nándor
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
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
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-legal typology of European minorities
In terms of their legal status there are communities with equal status (state-constituting communities, [e.g. Flemish, Swiss cantons, Hungarians in Slovenia, Swedes in Finland], communities with cultural and/or language group...Author: Bárdi Nándor