Minority Rights and Liberal Democratic Insecurities

Anna-Mária Bíró is Director of the Tom Lantos Institute, Budapest, an international research and education institution in the human rights of minorities.Dwight Newman is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law at the University of Saskatchewan.

• Introduction ANNA-MARIA BIRO AND DWIGHT NEWMANPART I: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Minority Rights Within the Changing International Order 1 International Order, Diversity Regimes and Minority Rights: A Longue Durée Perspective ANNA-MARIA BIRO AND CORINNE LENNOX2 Prefatory Remarks: An Inside Perspective from an Outsider: The UN Special Rapporteur’s View on Minority Rights at the UN FERNAND DE VARENNES3 The Double-Edged Sword of External Citizenship and Minority Protection in Post-Communist EuropeSZABOLCS POGONYI4 Unstable Orders and Changing Minority Protection: The Effects of Urbanisation BENGT-ARNE WICKSTROMPART II: Migration, New Threats to Minority Identity and the Complexities of Religious Identities 5 Undocumented Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Can Minority Rights Law Stabilise the Unsettled Order? ALEXANDRA XANTHAKI6 Anti-immigrant Populism and the Duty of Respectful Engagement PATTI TAMARA LENARD7 Minority Identity in Digital Governance and theChallenges of Online Hate Speech and Content Regulation KYRIAKI TOPIDI8 Minority Rights Implications of Changing State Engagement with Religion DWIGHT NEWMANPART III: Distinctive Issues with Indigenous Peoples and Roma 9 An Unsettled Liberal Democratic Order and Indigenous Peoples’ Legal Rights MATTIAS AHREN10 Roma Participation as a Challenge for Minority Norms IULIUS ROSTASPART IV: Citizenship, Anti-immigrant Populism and Emergency Contexts 11 American Citizenship and State Abandonment BRIANA L. McGINNIS12 The Covid-19 Factor: How the Virus Shapes Relations Between States, Regions and Minorities in Europe ATTILA DABIS AND BELA FILEP