Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is now online ecmi.de/publications/detail/issue-42014-312/ Volume 13, Issue 4, 2014 of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) is now online. The last JEMIE issue for the year 2014 includes five articles on various topics within the areas of ethnopolitics and minority issues, detailed in the following. Nora Fellag, The Muslim Label: How French North Africans Have Become Muslims and not Citizens Nora Fellag (Mercer County Community College, USA), in her article on the integration of French North Africans into contemporary French society, discusses the fact that Islam is routinely seen as the main identity marker for French Maghrebi communities. Nelly Bekus, Hybrid Linguistic Identity of Post-Soviet Belarus Discussing Hybrid linguistic Identity of Post-Soviet Belarus, Nelly Bekus (University of Exter, UK) explores two different dimensions: as an element of the nation-building strategy in post-Soviet Belarus; and as part of a linguistic human rights discourse, which refers to legal, moral as well as emotional aspects of current Belarusian language legislation and practice. Hector Alos i Font, Chuvash Language in Chuvashias Instruction System: An Example of Educational Language Policies in Post-Soviet Russia Continuing with the topic of linguistic policies, the article by Hector Alos i Font (Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, Russia) outlines the situation of the Chuvash language in the education system of the Republic of Chuvashia (Russian Federation) and its evolution since the end of the Soviet period. Adem Beha, Minority Rights: An Opportunity for Adjustment of Ethnic Relations in Kosovo? Adem Beha (University of Prishtina, Kosovo) discusses minority rights in Kosovo: the legal entrenchment of group-differentiated rights for minority communities in Kosovo in light of shortcomings in their implementation. Dora Komnenovic, (Out)living the War: Anti-War Activism in Croatia in the Early 1990s and Beyond Dora Komnenovic (Justus Liebig University, Germany) analyses anti-war activism in Croatia, organized around the Anti-War Campaign (AWC) and its subsequent transformation(s). Finally, this JEMIE issue includes: a commentary by Tomas Kamusella on the polonisation of Poland and its effect on linguistic minorities and a book review by Andreea Racles of: We belong to them. Narratives of Belonging, Homeland and Nationhood in Territorial and Non-territorial Minority Settings, by Tünde Puskás. Brussels, Bern, and Berlin: Peter Lang, 2009, 309 pp.
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