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By Alexandre Duchêne

The publication is a call for participation to a genealogical figuring out of the ideological and discursive procedures that experience emerged out of the rules of linguistic minorities matters inside a global context and, extra accurately, on the United countries. It highlights the contradictions, limits and probabilities within the elaboration of overseas measures in the universalist framework of human rights. The e-book additionally emphasizes the paradoxes among nationwide pursuits and the elaboration of a world neighborhood - paradoxes within which minority matters essentially query the homogeneity of the nation. It exhibits that regardless of the shift from nationwide areas to overseas ones, the fears of geographical regions for linguistic minorities stay. eventually, the ebook unearths the significance of the copy of the pursuits of geographical regions inside a world association and the replica of energy throughout the criminal administration and legislation of minority rights quite often, and people of linguistic minorities in particular.

Through its presentation of the background of the United countries, its imaginative and prescient of the security of linguistic minorities, the underlying ideologies that experience emerged, in addition to the boundaries and probabilities of motion, the publication contributes to a greater realizing of the complexity of the safety of linguistic minorities and the position of language ideologies inside a world context.

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