CPM 2 - lecture 7

Civil (components of citizenship)

“the rights necessary for individual freedom”

Political (components of citizenship)

“the right to participate in the exercise of political power”

Social (components of citizenship)

"the full range from the right to basic economic support to the right to fully participate in society's culture and live a decent life according to the standards of the community"

Cultural (components of citizenship)

“comprises the right to assert and cultivate one’s cultural heritage”

Mental element (convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, 1948)

the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such".

Physical element (convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, 1948)

includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:

• Killing members of the group

• Causing serious harm to the group

• Inflicting life conditions leading to destruction

• Imposing measures to prevent births

• Forcibly transferring children to another group

Immigrant groups (types of minorities, Kymlicka 2012)

• Turkish Germans

• Mexican Americans

• Arab immigrants

Historic national minorities (types of minorities, Kymlicka 2012)

• Catalans in Spain

• Frisians in the Netherlands

• Welsh and Scottish in the UK

Indigenous peoples (types of minorities, Kymlicka 2012)

• Maori in New Zealand

• Inuit in Canada

• Ainu in Japan