Routledge Advances in Minority Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge Advances in Minority Studies (RAMS) provides a platform for outstanding state-of-the-art research on interdisciplinary and intersectional understandings of minorities, globally. Monographs and edited volumes in the series advance scholarly and practitioner insights from Anthropology, Law, Politics, Sociology, History and beyond. The series foregrounds pluralism and diversity of both authors and subjects of study, with a particular focus on emerging fields and marginalized voices.
Under the editorial supervision of Dr Stavroula Pipyrou and Dr Kyriaki Topidi, the series will be a primary source for students, scholars and practitioners in minority studies while presenting authors with a valuable means to reach a wide and growing readership.
Cultural Autonomy and Political Participation: Minority Elections in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Balázs Dobos
October 22, 2025
This book provides a comparative, theoretical and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries. The functions and effects of elections serve as ...
Minority Women, Rights and Intersectionality: Agency, Power, and Participation
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Jody Metcalfe, Shilpi Pandey
September 19, 2025
This collection focuses on minority women through the perspectives of minority rights and intersectionality to investigate such key concepts as discrimination, inequality, agency, participation, resistance, and solidarity while also unpacking dynamics of power. It presents diverse grounded ...
Minorities, Scarcity and Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Montañés Jiménez, Camila Ferreira Marinelli, Stavroula Pipyrou
July 17, 2025
This volume places scarcity as a defining aspect of minorities’ experience and as a tool to comprehend ongoing and unresolved societal friction and global environmental challenges, strategies for survival and reproduction of the status quo, and aspirational desires for social mobility. The book is ...
Islamophobia in European Cities: Solidarities, Responses and Dilemmas for Young Balkan Muslims
1st Edition
By Francesco Trupia
March 31, 2025
The demise of socialism in Southeast Europe coincided with the breakout of wars and genocidal violence against local Muslim populations. After being displaced and forced to migrate to different European countries, those former socialist citizens quickly developed institutions of sociability and ...
A Global Law of Diversity: Evolving Models and Concepts
1st Edition
By Nicolò Paolo Alessi
November 25, 2024
This book provides a global perspective on the accommodation of diversity within constitutional traditions, considering the most innovative approaches and legal instruments of the Global North and Global South. This field of study, traditionally dominated by a Global North approach based on ...
European Minorities in Times of Crisis: Negotiating Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruairidh Tarvet
November 20, 2024
Over the last decade, Europe has been struggling to cope with a series of significant and challenging global crises. Dramatic scenes from the so-called migrant crises, global financial crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have sent shockwaves across Europe’s borders and have ...
Minorities at War: Cultural Identity and Resilience in Ukraine
1st Edition
Edited
By Elmira Muratova, Nadia Zasanska
November 11, 2024
This collection focuses on Ukraine’s ethno-cultural minorities who in recent years have undergone forced displacement, emigration, the destruction of familiar ways of life, and a transformation of identity and language behaviour. The book examines the impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine, which ...
Minority Rights and Social Change: Norms, Actors and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyriaki Topidi, Eugenia Relaño Pastor
September 19, 2024
Minority movements tirelessly continue to engage in the process of social change, trying to promote and enforce minority protection norms and to have their world views, cultural practices, and norms recognized by the state. Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how ...