Movements, Migrants, Marginalisation: Challenges of societal and political participation in Eastern Europe and the enlarged EUHeiko Pleines, Sabine Fischer, Hans-Henning Schröder The end of socialism posed a historical challenge to European societies. The former socialist Central and East European countries were faced with what has been called a "triple transformation": Mutually dependent changes in the political, economic, and social spheres. At the same time, the old EU member states had to develop strategies to react to these developments and integrate former socialist societies.This post-socialist transformation of Europe coincided with a number of broader trends in the political, economic, and social spheres which are often collectively referred to as globalisation. Success or failure to adapt to these changes creates winners and losers. The focus of this edited volume is on various groups of "losers" and the challenges they face as a result of their marginalisation.This book presents the results of the Changing Europe Summer School on "Justice as a societal and political matter. Equality, social and legal security as conditions for democracy and the market" that took place in Berlin in July 2006. The Summer School brought together more than 30 young scholars from all over the world who work on issues related to Central and Eastern European societies and the enlarged EU. |
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
ReDefining Justice and Legitimacy in the PostSoviet Space | 15 |
Samoletova | 27 |
Susanne Schatral | 43 |
Noémi Kakucs and Róbert Sata | 57 |
Diana Schmidt | 83 |
Oksana Morgunova and Dmitry Morgunov | 101 |
David Duncan | 113 |
Csongor Kuti | 143 |
Katerina Koleva | 159 |
Damiana Gabriela Otoiu | 173 |
Aisalkyn Botoeva | 191 |
E Carina H Keskitalo | 203 |
Anastasiya Ryabchuk | 213 |
About the authors | 223 |
Aleksandra Wyrozumska | 125 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according action activities actors adopted advocacy anti-corruption argue Central citizenship civil society communist compensation concerns considered constitution context Convention corruption countries Court cultural demands democracy domestic violence Eastern economic effective electoral equality established ethnic Europe European example existing fact former frame gender equality global groups human rights Hungary immigrants important increased independent individual influence initiatives institutions integration interests introduced involved issue Jewish justice legislation limited majority migrants movement multicultural NGOs norms organisations participation party system past period persons political position post-communist practices presented Press pressure principles protection question regarding regional regulations relations responsibility restitution result role rules Russian second-wave feminism situation social structures success supermarkets tion transition transnational United University violence against women Western workers