European Minorities in Times of Crisis: Negotiating Identities (Routledge Advances in Minority Studies)

Over the last decade, Europe has been struggling to cope with a series of significant and challenging global crises.Dramatic scenes from the so-called migrant crises, global financial crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have sent shockwaves across Europe’s borders and have triggered drastic and sometimes even unprecedented responses from nation states.Caught between the shockwaves and counter-measures are Europe’s national minority communities.With little say or influence in national discussions on which measures to take in response to each crisis and often situated in peripheral or border regions, it is likely that these communities have been subjected to shifts in power balances and this may have even impacted their regional, national and transnational identities.By combining various sociological and anthropological methodologies with case studies from across northern, central, eastern and southern Europe, this book stresses the importance of listening to the unique