Geography of Ethnic Questions

• The phenomenon of nation and other ethnic formations.
• Theoretical constelation of ethnic studies. Practices and policies on ethnic issues.
• The research attempts to ethnic issues: statistical sources, archives, registres and field research work. Classification of nations and ethnic minorities.
• Nation and state, Nation-state, Nations and nationalism. Interethnic relations. Interethnic conflicts. Role and function of ethnic minorities
• Socialization and assimilation.
• National identity and national awareness.
• National institutions. National and minority- organization.
• Minorites. Minority-school systems, Formal and real minority protection.
• National composition of Slovenia. Slovenes in neighbour countries.
• Selected european minorities and non-statal nations: Hungarians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Turks, Roma, Sweden, South Tyrolean german spiking population, German communities in Europe. Sami, Friesland, Sorbs, Vlachs etc.