Review article
TEN YEARS OF THE NEW MINORITY POLICY IN SERBIA
Ilija Vujačić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8858-6186
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Srbia
Abstract
In spite of the fact that Serbia is a multicultural state in which many ethno-
-cultural minorities live, that basic regulations have been issued which secure
the rights of ethnic minorities, and that a system of multiculturalism has been
established, only partial recognition of the identity and rights of ethnic minorities
has been accomplished in Serbia. This has been carried out through introducing
procedures, rules, institutions, mechanisms and instruments which
guarantee the exercise of rights of ethnic minorities which live and develop
their own identity alongside other minorities and the ethnic majority, with the
actual effect that, regardless of the attained high level of multiculturalism, the
minorities are still separated, mutually and with regard to the majority, i.e.
ghettoised. This is caused by the established type of segregative multiculturalism,
which contributes to the situation in which minorities are separated; they
coexist, but are not intermixed in an integrated multicultural society.
Keywords
new minority policy; segregative multiculturalism; integrative multiculturalism; Serbia; minorities; identity
Hrčak ID:
84668
URI
Publication date:
6.6.2012.
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