Ethnic minorities

Page 1. A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR ETHNIC MINORITY GRADUATE STUDENTS Nabil Hassan El-Ghoroury State University of New York at Binghamton Diana Salvador Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey The Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology ...

Purpose – To provide an initial assessment of the nature and extent of the involvement of Asian-owned firms in the creative industries in London; to identify and assess any barriers they face; and draw out the implications for policy. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical study, undertaken in late 2002. Data sources included official statistical data and previous reports, as well as a programme of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 23 Asian entrepreneurs spread across eight sub-sectors. Findings – Asians are making a significant contribution to London’s creative sectors, although they do face a number of specific constraints. Some of these are specific to the creative industries but others are shared with other small firms. However, few of these constraints appear to be exclusively Asian. Research limitations/implications – There are some limitations relating to the small scale of the study and its focus on a single geographical location. Practical implications – The res...

This paper from 1991 aims at: (a) examining some of the connections between indigenous peoples and land rights and (b) presenting some elements of a framework within which to understand and analyze concrete cases of indigenous peoples' land rights. Land rights is however only one aspect of indigenous cultures, and this limited overview cannot do justice to these often exceedingly complex cultures. The emphasis seems, however, justified since land in a very deep emotional and spiritual sense is viewed as synonymous with the very life of indigenous peoples.
The logic of the argument is built up around the following key terms: sustainable development, self-determination, land rights, and organization and action. But first it is necessary to focus on who the indigenous peoples are and what their current situation is.

Abstract · The Bibie in the history of pastoral and liturgical use of the friulian language · On February 1, 2019 the new edition of the translation of the Holy Scripture in the Friulian language, La Bibie, published by the Pio Paschini Institute for the History of the Church in Friuli on behalf of the dioceses of Udine, Gorizia and Concordia-Prodenone was officially presented in Udine. At the presentation, attended by numerous authorities and a large audience, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, spoke with a report entitled: The mother’s voice. The ecclesial reasons of the Bible in the Friulian language. On that same occasion, the contribution now published was also read, which aims to outline the historical path within which the new edition of La Bibie is placed.

Hvilke konsekvenser har 70 dr med sovjetiske reformer hatt for de russiske samenes etnopolitiske organisering etter 1989? F0rste del av denne artikkelen tar for seg utviklingen av de russiske samenes etnopolitiske organisasjoner og lederskap pa 1990-tallet. I andre del belyses sammenhengen mellom dennepostsovjetiske utviklingen og politikken i sovjettiden.

An intervention was developed to promote parent involvement with ethnic minority families of children attending Head Start preschool programs. Two hundred eighty-eight predominantly African American families from a small southern city were included in this study. Parent satisfaction with the program was high, yet engagement was less than optimal. Some effects were found for the program, despite low levels of participation. Ethnic minority parents who received the intervention increased the frequency of reading to their child as compared with parents in a comparison group who did not receive the program. The quality of the parent-teacher relationship was significantly correlated with parental participation in the intervention. Program participation and the parent-teacher relationship were correlated with higher levels of children's school readiness abilities. Children in the intervention condition showed stronger end-of-year receptive vocabulary and parent-rated social competence...

'Strangers amongst us. Migrants and ethnic
minorities in Maandblad Geestelijke volksgezondheid [Dutch mental health monthly], 1946-1991'
This article reviews and analyses the writings in
MGv ["Maandblad Geestelijke volksgezondheid"; Dutch menatl health monthly, est. in 1946] about Jewish orphans, colonial returnees from
Indonesia, refugees, labour migrants and their
descendants. Very little attention was paid to such
groups before the 1980s. The author attributes this
to (a) the postwar taboo on making 'racial'
distinctions, (b) an unwillingness to acknowledge
that the Netherlands had become an immigration
country, and (c) the dominance of sociologists and
anthropologists in this field. As a consequence of
the latter factor, mental health professionals in the
1970s and early 1980s tended to view the
psychological problems of ethnic minorities as part
of a structural, social problem they could do little to
change. Only after they freed themselves of that
idea did they start understanding how they could
help migrants and minorities. The number of
relevant MGv contributions has risen sharply ever
since.

The concept of “Indigenous Pygmy People” is accepted and
approved by the government and civil society organisations
(CSOs) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the DRC,
the term refers to the Mbuti, Baka and Batwa peoples.
The exact number of Indigenous Pygmy People in the DRC
is unknown. The government estimates it at around 700,000
(1% of the Congolese population)1 but CSOs give a figure of up
to 2,000,000 (3% of the population). They are widely acknowledged
as the first inhabitants of the national rainforests.2 They
live in nomadic and semi-nomadic groups throughout virtually
all of the country’s provinces. Indigenous peoples’ lives are
closely linked to the forest and its resources: they practise hunting,
gathering and fishing and treat their illnesses through the
use of their own pharmacopeia and medicinal plants. The forest
lies at the heart of their culture and living environment.3
However, it is little recognised that their traditional knowledge
and practices have significantly contributed to preserving
the Congolese forests. Worse, Indigenous Pygmy People’s
customary rights are blatantly ignored, and Indigenous groups
are often evicted from their traditional territories with neither
consent nor compensation. This tenure insecurity has dramatic
socioeconomic consequences – from ethnic identity loss to
lethal conflicts, as recently occurred in Tanganyika and around
the Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
Nevertheless, there is hope. In 2020, the DRC showed the
world its commitment to protecting and promoting the rights
of Indigenous people through several breakthroughs, including
some major progress on the proposed Law on the promotion
and protection of Indigenous Pygmy People’s rights.

Survey data collected from multiethnic samples of geographically dispersed college students and a national probability sample of US adults were utilized to examine the correlates of support for multiculturalism and assimilation—two competing interethnic ideologies, or ideals for how an ethnically diverse society should optimally function. Endorsement of multiculturalism and assimilation was related to perceived ethnic group differences, intergroup bias, and voting behavior on a number of public policies, but in opposite directions. Relative to white participants, ethnic minority participants endorsed multiculturalism to a greater extent, reported higher levels of group identification, and were more likely to support pro-diversity public policies. Discussion focuses on explanations for the variety of observed differences between ethnic minority and majority respondents, on the meaning of assimilation and multiculturalism, and on the argument that harmony between ethnic groups and dissimilarity between ethnic groups need not be thought of as mutually exclusive.

The book focuses on the significance of the concept of minority in international law together with the legal norms and principles emerged in the periods following the two world wars. The first chapter focuses on the discussions in the legal literature concerning the definability of the concept of minority. The second chapter presents the main bodies and procedures of minority rights protection under the rubric of the international organisations. The main objective of this chapter is to provide new interpretations of international minority in relationship with the legal instruments and the decisions of the relevant monitoring organs working under the UN and COE. The last chapter discusses whether there exists a direct link between the protection of minority rights and internal as well as external forms of self-determination.

The study argues that a relatively non-assertive language adopted in international minority rights instruments gives a large margin of appreciation for states and international monitoring organs in promoting and protecting minority rights. In addition, the work places the issues surrounding minority protection in the larger political context of creating a new platform for real equality and non-discrimination discourse.

This article analysis Governments and interest group’s intermediation of employment interest under neo-corporatism to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work in  Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Existing research pointed to neo-corporatism that  emphasize large interest group organization cooperates with each other and with public
authorities in interest intermediation to reconcile competing group’s interest with the public,  but the governance leads to inequality. Although neo-corporatism involves regulatory  weakness, there is still little research in Central Eastern European (CEE) countries explaining  Government and interests’ group intermediation of employment interest under neo-corporatism to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work. Based on a  qualitative cross-national case-oriented research approach with fewer-country comparison,  documents, published and unpublished scholastic texts are collected and analysed by a  document and content analysis technique to fill in this gap. The findings show that exchange  interaction, industrial restructuring, and compliance monitoring instruments are a major  perceived influence in neo-corporatism governance with a lack of public value accountability  that may impair the reconciliation of social dispute when looking at issues such as young third-country immigrants and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in interest  intermediation setting. The study demonstrates certain decentralised multilevel corporatist  governance similarities but dissimilarities from the country’s institutional context. The  outcome points to regulatory administrative devices to manage interest group’s crisis and  young vulnerable people’s employment opportunities. This is relevant to bureaucratic  accountability and deliberate democracy, but the risks to democratic deficit, competitiveness,  political inequality, and inefficiency in the complex policy implementation process may  impair ethnic minority people’s belongings, jeopardize public the trust, and hampered open democratic values.

The importance of conducting substance abuse research among ethnic minorities is underscored by findings that members of many ethnic minorities in the United States report higher rates of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems than do Whites and have increased rates of illicit drug use, abuse, and dependence. It is important to better understand ethnic-specific substance use from a public health perspective. Recent data suggest that the prevalence of past month alcohol use and heavy alcohol use among Hispanics is lower than and the prevalence of binge drinking and alcohol abuse or dependence is comparable to that of non-Hispanic Whites. These estimates vary among Hispanic subgroups and across gender and age groups. The prevalence of past month illicit drug use is also lower among Hispanics than that of several other groups, including non-Hispanic Whites. These trends are consistent among both men and women, although the prevalence for men is nearly twice that of women in nearly all subgroups. Conversely, the prevalence of illicit drug abuse or dependence among Hispanics is slightly higher than that of non-Hispanic Whites. This article describes national level epidemiological data on the prevalence of alcohol and illicit drug use, abuse, and dependence among Latinos/Hispanics in the United States in comparison to other race and ethnic groups. Previous findings in the literature will be reviewed and new analyses using the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health will be presented. Given the heterogeneity of Hispanics in the United States, data for Hispanics will be broken down by national groups whenever possible.

Recreation professionals continually strive to serve a host of diverse program con-stituents, while leisure researchers attempt to uncover barriers to leisure participation. Much of the barriers or constraints research has come from the perspective of program participants. This study identified, from the perspectives and experiences of 18 recre-ation professionals, the issues and barriers that they perceive inhibit recreation program access and availability to diverse constituents, particularly ethnic minority populations. Co-cultural theory, which integrates the concepts of muted group theory and standpoint theory, was utilized as the study’s theoretical framework. In-depth interviews were uti-lized. Five primary barriers were identified that related to the changing faces of the community, the changing faces of management and staff, deferred program responsibil-ity, language barriers, and negative attitudes and stereotypes held by some management and staff. This article demonstrate...

This chapter discusses the evolution of minority policies in Poland after 1945 in the
context of the processes of ethnic homogenization and nationalization of the Polish state. It analyses the impact of political changes and ethnic structure on the national and minority policy of Poland at various stages of historical development of the country. It also explores whether, and if so, to what extent, the process of national consolidation in Poland has been completed, i.e. to what extent the national identity has prevailed over the regional or linguistic identities. The findings reveal that, after 1989, the minority issue is no longer a relevant factor in Polish politics, remaining within the confines of the dispute over the nature of the Polish identity between the conservative-nationalist and the leftist-liberal segments of Polish politics. At the same time, however, minority rights are not, despite the wording of the Constitution and relevant legislation, relegated to the level of democratic discourse by the political elites, but in many cases are rather seen as a challenge to the stability of the Polish statehood.

This study analyses the representation of different ethnic communities in Lithuanian history curriculum both in interwar period and nowadays. The main focus is on the multicultural heritage of three major Lithuanian cities – Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda – and its understanding in two different periods of independent Lithuania – during the interwar period, when the first republic of Lithuania was created, and after the fall of Communism in 1990, when Lithuania became independent once again and started to develop new history curriculum. In this article the author seeks to briefly evaluate the importance of interwar history education to nowadays history education, and to distinguish the main differences and their causes. Résumé: Multiculturalisme dans la didactique historique: les cas Vilnius, Kaunas et Klaipeda L’étude ci-jointe analyse la représentation des différentes communautés interethniques dans le curriculum d’histoire lituanienne de la période de l’entre-deux-guerres et de nos...

1. Why is it difficult to challenge oppression in your clinical practice personal lives, and community? 2. What steps are you taking to actively disrupt the cycle of oppression to reduce micro aggression in your clinical work and in your life?3. Do you actively develop friendships with people who don’t share your social identities to unearth stereotypes and to become aware of unconscious prejudice?

In increasingly diverse polities, the question of how minorities engage with national and local political processes is important. In the U.K., the Labour Party has traditionally benefited electorally from ethnic minority communities, often through ethnicity-based voting blocs. However, little attention has been paid to how the Party’s candidate selection process is influenced by strategic party membership and nomination. We argue that community clan or kinship (biraderi) networks found amongst British Pakistanis have been mobilised for this purpose. We examine the cases of Bradford and Birmingham with respect to the nominations for Prospective Candidates at both parliamentary and local council level. We show the continued importance of biraderi connections in spite of Labour Party attempts to ‘clean up’ selection contests through impositions of the National Executive Committee (NEC). Such practices favour the selection of candidates with strong biraderi links and, as such, often marginalise female candidates.

In diesem Artikel vertreten wir die Auffassung, dass gute kriminologische Forschung in multikulturellen Kontexten eine weit reichende Anpassung in Forschungsdesign, Planung und praktischer Umsetzung verlangt. Dies beinhaltet unter anderem: angepasste Strategien zur Kontaktaufnahme mit den am wenigsten integrierten Minderheiten einer Gesellschaft, qualitativ hochwertige and methodisch abgesicherte Fragebogenübersetzungen, eine sorgfältige Befragerschulung und eine anschliessende systematische Untersuchung der kulturellen Äquivalenz der gemessenen Konstrukte.
Wir illustrieren diese Punkte anhand der Erfahrungen im Zürcher Projekt zur sozialen Entwicklung von Kindern (z-proso). z-proso ist eine Längsschnittstudie, welche im Rahmen des Nationalen Forschungsprogramms „Kindheit, Jugend und Generationenbeziehungen im gesellschaftlichen Wandel“ (NFP 52) des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds durchgeführt wurde.

In this paper, I argue that frontiers are dilemmas composed of multiple dualities, be they exclusive and inclusive powers, connected space and national periphery, or modernity and primitiveness. These dilemmas, in consequence, become the mechanism to create a leeway for the state to ‘tailor’ different meanings of frontier to meet the contingent market demands. I use tea production on China’s southwest frontier as an example to demonstrate that dilemma is not an end result, but a mechanism to rearticulate the relationship among frontier, the state and the market economy. Specifically, I argue that dilemmas on China’s southwest frontier have been forged by the Chinese state with its incompatible desires between ‘modernisation’ and ‘primitiveness’ of the tea landscapes in Yunnan, a province on China’s southwest frontier. Meanwhile, the incompatible desires and the resulting dilemmas on China’s southwest frontier have further mobilised the state to flexibly rework its power to reconstruct the frontier to meet contingent market demand. Based on the shifting meanings of tea landscapes, the state has flexibly ‘shuttled through’ the dilemmas between development of modernisation and preservation of primitiveness on the frontier.