This project focusses on political participation and representation of minorities in nationally constituted societies, one of the most important challenges for contemporary politics. Both internationally and in the individual European states, societies are bound to be identified with a nation-state positing considerable challenge for multiple diversity governance. The normalization of the privileged status of the majority population; ethnic citizenship regimes; consolidation of societies around culturally defined democratic institutions all out minorities in a less advantageous position when engaging with and contributing to formal political process. At the centre of this challenge stand the nation-state consolidation and the consequences it has on the participation and representation of the members of four Europe’s divided societies in Northern Ireland, South Tyrol, South Schleswig and Polish-speakers in Eastern Lithuania.

The final conference of the project took place on June 15-16 2021. See detailed program here.

For more information, please contact Dr. Timofey Agarin.