Abstract
This chapter assesses how minority ethnic identities are regarded and represented in the polities of Kosovo and Northern Ireland, again using the Galligan/Clavero framework for analysis. The relative representation of minority identities in Northern Ireland and Kosovo is compared and contrasted, including the effects of minority ethnic quotas in Kosovo and the ethnicisation of party politics. The prioritisation of conflict-related ethnic identities and the dominance of the conflict paradigm over other issues are discussed.
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There were two minority ethnic candidates in the 2016 Assembly election, both representing the non-aligned Northern Ireland Labour Representative Committee.
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The Sejdić-Finci ruling in 2009 in the European Court of Human Rights found the constitution of Bosnia and Hercegovina in contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights because it named certain ethnic groups in its provisions, which excluded others, in this case, a Bosnian Roma and a Bosnian Jew.
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Snapshot 4 May 2016.
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Review of websites undertaken 20 April 2016.
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The term ‘Gypsy’ is generally regarded as pejorative in western European parlance, although some travelling groups still refer to themselves as such (Hamilton et al. 2012: 2). It is difficult to discern whether the use of the term here is intended negatively: speakers of other languages often translate their own term for travelling peoples as ‘Gypsies’ where there may not be such derogatory connotations in their own language.
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The Ulster Unionist Party stepped out of the Executive in 2015 and into ‘opposition’, but there were no formal opposition arrangements in place, although at the time of the research such arrangements had been under consideration in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Potter, M. (2020). Ethnicity and Inclusion in Northern Ireland and Kosovo. In: Inclusion in Post-Conflict Legislatures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25536-7_8
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