Minority Rights and Liberal Democratic Insecurities

This book addresses the impact of a range of destabilising issues on minority rights in Europe and North America.

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Anna-Mária Bíró is Director of the Tom Lantos Institute, Budapest, an international research and education institution in the human rights of minorities.

Dwight Newman is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Introduction

ANNA-MARIA BIRO AND DWIGHT NEWMAN

PART I: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Minority Rights Within the Changing International Order

1 International Order, Diversity Regimes and Minority Rights: A Longue Durée Perspective

ANNA-MARIA BIRO AND CORINNE LENNOX

2 Prefatory Remarks: An Inside Perspective from an Outsider: The UN Special Rapporteur's View on Minority Rights at the UN

FERNAND DE VARENNES

3 The Double-Edged Sword of External Citizenship and Minority Protection in Post-Communist Europe

SZABOLCS POGONYI

4 Unstable Orders and Changing Minority Protection: The Effects of Urbanisation

BENGT-ARNE WICKSTROM

PART II: Migration, New Threats to Minority Identity and the Complexities of Religious Identities

5 Undocumented Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Can Minority Rights Law Stabilise the Unsettled Order?

ALEXANDRA XANTHAKI

6 Anti-immigrant Populism and the Duty of Respectful Engagement

PATTI TAMARA LENARD

7 Minority Identity in Digital Governance and the

Challenges of Online Hate Speech and Content Regulation

KYRIAKI TOPIDI

8 Minority Rights Implications of Changing State Engagement with Religion

DWIGHT NEWMAN

PART III: Distinctive Issues with Indigenous Peoples and Roma

9 An Unsettled Liberal Democratic Order and Indigenous Peoples' Legal Rights

MATTIAS AHREN

10 Roma Participation as a Challenge for Minority Norms

IULIUS ROSTAS

PART IV: Citizenship, Anti-immigrant Populism and Emergency Contexts

11 American Citizenship and State Abandonment

BRIANA L. McGINNIS

12 The Covid-19 Factor: How the Virus Shapes Relations Between States, Regions and Minorities in Europe

ATTILA DABIS AND BELA FILEP