Affiliation ethnique et pression sociale en Macédoine
In countries of the former Yugoslav Federation there is a long-standing tradition of collection of ethnic affiliation, which sustains fights for leadership between communities. So, everybody tries to see his community very well numbered, even overestimated in order to maximalize advantages.This lead...
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| Language: | English |
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Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Espace populations sociétés |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/eps/3478 |
| Summary: | In countries of the former Yugoslav Federation there is a long-standing tradition of collection of ethnic affiliation, which sustains fights for leadership between communities. So, everybody tries to see his community very well numbered, even overestimated in order to maximalize advantages.This leads to a play of pressures and incitements whose effects can be seen in some population variations impossible to explain only with the demographic trend.Moves from one group to one another are authorized by the fact that, in this region, ethnic affiliation is only a personal statement. They can be reinforced in countries, especially in Macedonia since the 2001 Ohrid agreement, where political representations of communities are based on their weights in the total population. In order to get an idea on these moves in the ethnic affiliation declaration, answers to question about ethnic affiliation at the two consecutive censuses (1994 and 2002) of persons born the same day and living in the same municipality have been matched. This process permits to detect changes in declaration. More than 700 thousand matches had been done. On the whole Macedonia, 3% of persons have changed their ethnic affiliation declaration between 1994 and 2002, but extend of changes differs largely according to municipality and ethnic group. Religion seems to be the most impassable border. |
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| ISSN: | 0755-7809 2104-3752 |