KINPOL: Observatory on Kin-State Policies

ASN European Conference: Nationalism in Times of Uncertainty, 4-6 July 2018, University of Graz, Austria

Kin-state policies in Europe have long been defended as a form of kin minority protection. It is argued that a kin-state’s intervention has generally contributed to safeguard a right to a cultural community for their kin-minorities, and at a minimum, to improve their cultural conditions. This panel organised by KINPOL Observatory on Kin-state Policies discusses the nature and scope of a kin-state’s intervention and assess the extent to which it is consistent with the minority protection argument in the context of the kin-state policies of Denmark and Germany, new forms of kin-state intervention (Hungary and Romania), and the impact of Hungary’s policies upon ethnic Hungarians from Romania.

CHAIR: Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen’s University)

DISSCUSANT: David Smith (University of Glasgow)

PARTICIPANTS: Martin Klatt (University of Southern Denmark), Myra Waterbury (Ohio University), Levente Salat (Babeş-Bolyai University), Tamás Kiss (the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities) and Andreea Udrea (University of Glasgow).

The full programme is available to view. 

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First published: 29 July 2020