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Race, Ethnicity, Nationality and the Law Legal Paradoxes in Conceptualization and Operationalization
Foreword. Introduction: How to Read this Book - and Why PART I: CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION 1. Conceptualization and operationalization: conceptual and legal overview 2. Contesting: passing, fraud, and assimilation PART II: PARADOXES IN CONCEPTUALIZATION AND OPERATIONALIZATION 3. Linguistic and teleological deficiencies and ambiguities in defining 4. The arbitrariness of conceptualization 5. The challenges and perils of subjectivism in operationalization 6. Objective operationalization schemes: The rebiologization of race 7. The menace of ethnoracial data-phobia Part III: CASE STUDIES 8. National Minorities 9. The Jewry 10. The Roma 11. The Indigenous 12. The Dalit and the case of caste 13. The Albino. Closing and Concluding Remarks. Bibliography
Biography
András L. Pap is Research Professor and Head of Department for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the (formerly Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, as well as Professor of Law at the Faculty of Economics at Eötvös University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary. For 25 years, until its closing in 2025, he was Adjunct (Recurrent Visiting) Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and Vienna.
