Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Társadalomtudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- TÁTK Kisebbségszociológia Tanszék
- Kód
- EKIP08.1
- Cím
- Minority rights and minority issues
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2023/24/2
- ECTS
- 5
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- Course objectives: The course is a seminar. The course introduces the concept and development of human rights. Also, the course gives an insight of how rights of national/ethnic/cultural minorities can be situated within the system of human rights. It aims to familiarize students with the theoretical debates of multiculturalism. Topics range from dilemmas of definitions to certain minority rights and to related debates. The course has special focus on issues concerning the Roma Minority, and on the concept of trans-border minorities using the case studies of Hungary.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- 1. Introduction 2. Introduction to human rights 3. Prohibition of discrimination, equal treatment Handbook on European non-discrimination law: Categories and Defences. (pp. 21-55.) http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/1510-FRA-CASE-LAW-HANDBOOK_EN.pdf 4. Are minority rights human rights? Peter Jones: Human Rights, Group Rights, and Peoples' Rights http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/mia/shared/mia/cours/IA010/JONES1999.pdf Michael Freeman: Are there Collective Human Rights? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1995.tb01734.x János Kis: Beyond the Nation State from the chapter Multiculturalism https://www.jstor.org/stable/40972342 5. Multiculturalism Chapter 2 and 6 of Will Kymlicka: Multicultural Citizenship. A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Joseph Raz: Multiculturalism: A Liberal Perspective. Dissent Winter, 1994: 67–77. 6. Liberal, non-liberal, whatever multiculturalism? Charles Taylor: The Politics of Recognition 25–74. In: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Will Kymlicka: The rise and fall of multiculturalism? New debates on inclusion and accommodation in diverse societies. 7. International legal protection of minorities, relevant international documents UN: Balázs Majtényi: The UN and the Protection of Minorities http://epa.oszk.hu/00400/00463/00006/8.htm CoE: Factsheet on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities https://www.coe.int/en/web/minorities/fcnm-factsheet 8. Roma situation in Hungary János Ladányi, Iván Szelényi: The Social Construction of Roma Ethnicity… http://www.szociologia.hu/dynamic/RevSoc_2001_2_LadanyiJ_The_social_construction_of_romaa_ethnicity.pdf Historical variations in inter-ethnic relations: Toward a social history of Roma in Csenyéte, 1857-2000… https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238093141_Historical_variations_in_inter-ethnic_relations_Toward_a_social_history_of_Roma_in_Csenyete_1857-2000 Balázs Majtényi, György Majtényi: A Contemporary History of Exclusion: The Roma Issue in Hungary from 1945 to 2015. (pp. 119–186.) 9. Political participation rights 4. Representation and Social Perspective 121- 154. Iris Marion Young Inclusion and Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Jane Mansbridge, „Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent »Yes«”, The Journal of Politics 61. 3 (1999): 628–57. 13-19 April 2022 Spring holiday 10. Nancy Fraser. „From Redistribution to Recognition?: Dilemmas of Justice in a Post-Socialist Age”. In Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate, ed. Cynthia Willett, 19–49, 1998. Iris Marion Young, „Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory”, in Theorizing Multiculturalism : A Guide to the Current Debate, szerk. Cynthia Willett, 1998, 50–67. Keith Banting, Richard Johnston, Will Kymlicka és Stuart Soroka. „Do multiculturalism policies erode the welfare state? An empirical analysis”. In Multiculturalism and the welfare state: recognition and redistribution in contemporary democracies, ed. Kymlicka és Banting, 49–91. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 11. Presentations 12. Presentations
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Requirements: The course is a seminar. It is required to take part on classes. (Students may miss three classes throughout the semester.) Students shall prepare for each occasion; they must be familiar with the papers/materials assigned to each class. It is mandatory to actively participate in classroom discussions. Students are expected to read the literature for each lesson and formulate the most thrilling research question or suggestion based on their own field of research or subjective interest. By the end of the semester, students should hold short presentations regarding one chosen minority community and its situation, circumstances, rights guaranteed etc. They should also summarize the presentations in a two-pages (1000-1200 words) paper for other students to read and comment on them. Deadline: 30 April. Grade is based on course work (60%) and the final paper and presentation (40%).
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Literature is in the Topics table. Additional, recommended bibliography: Timofey Agarin and Malte Brosig: Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Ethnic Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, New York, Rodopi, 2009. Karl Cordell, Timofey Agarin, Alexander Osipov: Institutional Legacies of Communism: Change and Continuities in Minority Protection. Abingdon, New York: Routledge 2013.Zsuzsa Csergő, Ada-Charlotte Regelmann: Europeanization and Minority Political Action in Central and Eastern Europe. Problems of Post-Communism, 2017. 64/5: 215–218. János Kis: 10 x 10, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 8, Issue 3, 1 July 2010, 453–464.o. https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moq020 (Do We Have Human Rights?) Kristen Hill Maher, Who Has a Right to Rights? Citizenship’s Exclusions in an Age of Migration, IN: Alison Brysk (ed.): Globalization and Human Rights. University of California Press, 2002. Will Kymlicka, Raphael Cohen-Almagor: Democracy and Multiculturalism https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265048048_Democracy_and_Multiculturalism Will Kymlicka: Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1995 Will Kymlicka: Multiculturalism and Minority Rights: West and East. JEMIE: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe 14/ 4 (2015): 4–25. Intersections – East European Journal of Minorities and Politics Vol 3 No 4 (2017): Europeanization and Changes in Minority Inclusion in Central and Eastern Europe http://intersections.tk.mta.hu/index.php/intersections/issue/view/12 Balázs Majtényi and Balázs Vizi (eds.): A minority in Europe: selected international documents regarding the Roma. Budapest: Gondolat, 2007 Balázs Majtényi, György Majtényi: A contemporary history of exclusion: the Roma issue in Hungary from 1945 to 2015. Budapest: CEU Press, 2015. Michael Stewart (ed.): The Gypsy menace: populism and the new anti-Gypsy politics. London: Hurst, 2012. Júlia Szalai: Informality and the Invisibility of Roma Political Participation IN: Intersections Vol 2 No 1 (2016): Roma Marginalisation, Spatial Policies and Politics http://intersections.tk.mta.hu/index.php/intersections/article/view/138 Steven Vertovec and Susanne Wessendorf: Introduction: assessing the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe. In: The Multiculturalism Backlash European Discourses, Policies and Practices, London; New York: Routledge, 2010. Databases, reports: MRG -- https://minorityrights.org/directory/ Globalcit -- https://globalcit.eu/databases/globalcit-citizenship-law-dataset/