Minority Language Rights Before and After the 2004 EU Enlargement: The Copenhagen Criteria in the Baltic States

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 453-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Bernard Adrey
Keyword(s):  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Minority Language Rights ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Baltic

Left Behind? A Critical Study of the Russian-speaking Minority Rights to Citizenship and Language in the Post-Soviet Baltic States. Lessons from Nationalising Language Policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-536
Author(s):  
Lilija Alijeva
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Minority Language Rights ◽  
The Baltic

Minority rights protection is widely discussed in relation to diversity management stability within a state. Yet the case of Russian-speaking minorities in the post-Soviet Baltic States has been a challenging example to analyse because of the sensitivity of language issues. This article discusses Baltic States’ language policies that impact the Russian-speaking minority’s language rights, argued here to be the focal point for minority identity formation inclusion into society. While international law continues to be mostly silent regarding minority language rights, kin-states, in this case Russia, direct their interest towards its supposed kin-nationals abroad, which leads to rising levels of concerns for Baltic States’ governments because this interest has led to conflict in other post-Soviet states. This article argues that the situation in the Baltic States is unique, recommends amending domestic language policies to achieve effective minority integration, inclusion, accommodation, generating stable democratic rule.

Equal Recognition and Language Rights

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Patten
Keyword(s):  
Minority Language ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Language Preservation ◽  
Minority Language Rights ◽  
Equal Recognition

This chapter explores the justification of minority language rights. It argues that equal recognition ought to play a key role in thinking about the justification of minority language rights, and that disputes about language rights ought to be examined from the perspective of what was called “full liberal proceduralism.” From this perspective, the mere fact that some minority language is doing poorly does not by itself ground a legitimate complaint of injustice by speakers of that language. But minority speakers do have a complaint if their language fares poorly in a context in which it is disfavored by public institutions. There is no right to language preservation, but there is a strong, pro tanto claim for equal recognition, a claim that can be considered a right in the absence of defeating countervailing considerations.

Territoriality and Minority Language Rights

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Vizi
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Minority Language Rights

Territorial principle emerges not only in domestic legislations on language rights, but also in international documents. The article aims at offering an overview of the interpretations of territoriality in international documents relevant for minority language rights, with a special focus on the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages and the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. While states often use territorial requirements as a tool of political control over minority language use, the interpretation of their obligations under the two Council of Europe treaties would require a more practical and technical approach to territorial limitations.

Minority Language Rights in International Law

2001 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Minority Language Rights ◽  
Regional Or Minority Languages

The provision of legislative or other legal protection for linguistic minorities is widespread in domestic legal systems.1 In international law, and in international human rights law in particular, the question of minority language rights has until recently received much less attention. The entry into force on 1 March 1998 of the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (the “Minority Languages Charter”), the first international instrument directed solely at the question of language, suggests that the situation may be changing.

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