1st Edition

European Minorities in Times of Crisis Negotiating Identities

Edited By Ruairidh Tarvet Copyright 2025
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Over the last decade, Europe has been struggling to cope with a series of significant and challenging global crises. Dramatic scenes from the so-called migrant crises, global financial crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have sent shockwaves across Europe’s borders and have triggered drastic and sometimes even unprecedented responses from nation states. Caught between the... Read more

1 Introduction

Ruairidh Tarvet 

2 Covid-19 in Sápmi: materialising the colonial fragmentation of Sámi communities

Erika de Vivo 

3 No single model: how minority identities in the Danish-German and Austrian-Slovak border regions have been shaped by recent international crises

Ruairidh Tarvet 

4 Resilient minorities in the times of polycrisis? Poles in Czechia and Germans in Poland in a comparative perspective

Hynek Böhm, Ewa Ganowicz and Khrystyna Shelvakh  

5 Do you feel Ukrainian? Main concerns and self-perceptions of the Romanian minority in Ukraine

Nadiia Bureiko and Teodor Lucian Moga

6 In the grip of the crisis: vulnerability and resilience of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia, Ukraine

Katalin Kovály and Wojciech Opioła 

7 A national or a linguistic minority? Slovene identity in contemporary Italy

Zaira Vidau 

8 “We’re a nation, not a minority” Independentism and National Sentiment in Catalonia after the 2017 Referendum

James Hawkey 

9 Conclusion: minorities and identity in times of crisis – lessons learned and implications for the concept of national minority as a tool to manage diversity in a B/ordered World

Martin Klatt

Biography

Dr Ruairidh Tarvet is a lecturer in Scandinavian studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK