The Impact of Europeanization on Minority Communities (PDF)

Katharina
Crepaz investigates how two-dimensional ('top-down' and 'bottom-up')
Europeanization processes affect minority communities by using a
comparative approach, encompassing cases from both "old"
(pre-2004) and "new" EU member-states. The author thereby
bridges two dichotomies made in the literature so far, and outlines
how Europeanization takes place in non-acquis areas. She does so by
looking at four very different case studies: the German-speaking
minority in South Tyrol/Italy, the Bretons in France, the German
minority in Silesia/Poland, and the Italian minority in
Istria/Croatia.

Contents

• Literature
  Review - Concepts of Europeanization
  
• Theoretical
  Background, Case Selection and Methodology
  
• Case
  Studies - Background and Analysis
  
• Comparative
  Process Tracing Analysis and Outlook
  

Target
Groups

• Scholars, Lecturers and Students of Political Science, Sociology and
  Law
  
• NGO and minority Organization employees, minority members,
  politicians in minority contexts
  

About the
Author

Katharina
Crepaz, Ph.D. is a post-doctoral research associate at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Law and Social Policy as well as at the TU
München. Her research interests include Europeanization processes,
national and immigrant minorities in the EU, the Roma, transnational
civil society, as well as processes of inclusion and participation
regarding marginalized groups. <