Minorities: Community and Identity: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Minorities: Community and Identity Berlin 1982, Nov. 28 – Dec. 3 (Dahlem Workshop Report, 27)

they belong. Do communities have rights, indeed even an existence, which are not merely the hypostasis of the individual rights and existences collected in them? This conflict is then more striking as it was a conscious decision of the or­ ganizers of the workshop to focus attention on what might broadly be called liberal democracies: those societies which share a commitment to the princi­ ples of democratic participation, to the right of equal concern and respect of all members of the community, and to the basic liberties of association, ex­ pression, and thought. Ours was not the smug premise, however, that every so­ ciety which proclaims these principles is sufficiently or even truly devoted to them. But we did assume that we would have enough to do if we explored the implications of these widely shared ideals for the topic of linguistic, ethnic, and national minorities as these problems arise in societies where an appeal to them is not an empty gesture. The nations from which our participants were drawn are societies in which appeal to these principles has some point. They are all societies in which the efforts of politicians and the intelligence of schol­ ars need not be devoted exclusively to the tactical issues of winning some mod­ icum of respect for basic human rights from unwilling regimes. And yet all these societies have experienced significant difficulty in determining what the concrete meaning in actual situations of these general principles might be. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-7 Towards the Development of a Typology of Minorities....Pages 9-23 The Nature, Causes, and Implications of Ethnic Identification....Pages 25-50 Group Identity and Social Comparisons....Pages 51-60 Ethnic Consciousness Among Immigrants....Pages 61-68 Identity Options....Pages 69-78 Identity as a Complex Network....Pages 79-92 Formation of Consciousness Group Report....Pages 94-107 The Communicative Bases of Social Inequality....Pages 109-118 Conflict and Community Survival....Pages 119-131 The Children of Aliens in West German Schools: Situation and Problems....Pages 133-157 Uses and Functions of the Media....Pages 159-175 Minorities’ Influence on the Majority: Reactions of the Majority in Political, Institutional, and Social Scientific Spheres....Pages 177-190 Minority Demands, Majority Reactions?....Pages 192-217 States and Minorities....Pages 219-227 Patterns of International Migration Policy: a Diachronic Comparison....Pages 229-246 Ethnic Pluralism: The U.S. Model....Pages 247-254 Immigration and Citizenship in Postwar Britain....Pages 255-268 The Political, Social, and Legal Status of Aliens and Refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 269-281 Humane Incorporation: The Shape of Acceptable Options For Relations between Majorities and Minorities....Pages 282-298 Policies for Police-Minority Relations....Pages 299-313 Writing a Constitution to Protect Minorities: The Canadian Experience....Pages 315-327 The Right of Ethnic Minorities to Political Representation....Pages 329-339 Political Community in Plural Societies....Pages 341-351 Affirmative Action and the Rights of the Majority....Pages 353-364 Politics of Affirmative Action: Race and Public Policy in America....Pages 365-373 The Case for a Group Libel Law in Great Britain....Pages 375-384 Forms of State and Rights....Pages 386-401 Back Matter....Pages 402-420