Region and Regionalism No. 6 vol. 1. The role of ethnic minorities in border regions. Forms of their composition. Problems of development and political rights.

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Contents

Foreword

Section I. Minorities and borderlands. General issues

Julian V. Minghi – The past as prologue: the resonance of ideas about borderlands

Marek Koter – Multicultural border regions of Europe – forms of ethnic composition and process of their differentioations

Jan Markusse – National minorities in the present European Union and their cultural and political rights in relation to developments in international law

Ewa Klima, Wojciech Retkiewicz – Ethnic minorities in the Internet

Section II. Borderlands as niches for relict small nations

Marek Barwiński – Lemkos aa a small relict nation

Magdalena Koszałka, Maria Soja – The Bojko region – extinct ethnic region of the Polish Carpathians

Joanna Szczepankiewicz-Battek – Lusatian Sorbs – the smallest nation of Central Europe

Vladimir Baar – Dagestan – specific borderland of Russia full of minorities

Section III. Borderlands as zones of cultural interpenetration of neighbouring nations

Krystian Heffner, Brygida Solga – The German minority of Opole Silesia as a minority of social and cultural borderland

Alicja Szajnowska-Wysocka – Ethnic problems of Upper Silesia

Krystyna Rembowska – Polish-German relationships in the light of press survey

Róbert Ištok – Hungarian minority at the southern border of Slovakia in the political and geographical contexts

Joanna Miętkowska-Brynda – The role of the Brazilian immigrants in the process of changes in the eastern Paraguay’s border areas

Section IV. Ethnic minorities in border region. Selected problems

Walter Zsilincsar – The Slovene minority in the border region of Styria – Austria

Igor Roblek – Ethnic minorities in border areas – the Carinthian Slovenes

Petr Šindler – Slovak minority in the Moravian-Silesian region after the year 1945

Alexandru Ilieş, Marcu Staşac – Geographical considerations about Romanian minority from Transcarpathian region (Ukraine)

Jan Wendt – The demography of Romanians in Besarabia and northern Bukovina