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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
wiley   +1 more source

Sultan Selim ve Şah İsmail Rekabetinde Heterodoks Kürtlerin Rölü (İdris-i Bidlisi’nin Selimşahname’si Temelinde)

, 2020
This article focuses on the role of the Kurds in the Safavid State during its establishment and restructuring period and aims to describe the influence of the Kurds on Shah Ismail Safavi ’s achievements and acquisition of power. The Ottomans reacted in a
Başçı, Nezahat
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The Power of Humanisation. The Role of Literary Studies and of Kurdish Literature

Studia Litteraria, 2019
The paper discusses the role of literature and literary studies in the possible humanisation of people representing different cultures. It is based on the results of socio psychological studies on the subtle forms of dehumanisation and on the personal experience of being a representative of minority.
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

Kurdish refugee communities : the diaspora in Finland and England [PDF]

This thesis describes the social organisation of Kurdish refugee communities and is a contribution to the theoretical discussion of the concept of diaspora. Field research methods were used in this comparative sociological study among Kurdish refugees
Wahlbeck, Östen
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In the framework of the memory of the Kurdish community Dengbêjs' songs about the recent events

, 2016
Oral culture constitutes an aspect of social memory. Especially in the societies where written culture has not developed enough, cultural transmission comes true in an oral way.
Çiftçi, Tekin
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The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary, Omid Asayesh, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur   +2 more
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A Comparative Study of the Function of Modal Verbs in Persian and Kurdish Languages (case study: two contemporary Persian and Kurdish novels)

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی
The analysis of modality and its various functions is one of the fundamental topics in the grammar of Iranian Languages, and the classification of modal operators including the inflectional morphemes and modal adverbs and auxiliaries constitute the main ...
Zaniar Naghshbandi, Fardin Hosseinpanahi
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Pastoral Literature in Oral Kurdish Literature: A Case Study of Khavmirabad District of Mariwan

پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2022
Folklore is an integral part of every nation’s literature, with a remarkable diversity in type and inclusion. A large part of this literature includes tales, legends, myths, songs, ballads, adages, riddles, and versified games transmitted orally from generation to generation over the centuries. All-important literary genres can be seen in folklore. One
Serwe Fatahi, Narges Jaberinasab, Ahmad Khatami   +2 more
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How education shapes divergent identity responses to discrimination: Experimental and observational evidence from Muslim immigrants in Germany

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract How immigrants respond to discrimination is a well‐studied topic in political psychology. However, less attention has been paid to whether the impact of discrimination on in‐group identification varies within minority groups and why. In Western Europe, Muslims experience significant discrimination and hostility based on their religious ...
Osman Suntay, Constantin Ruhe
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