PAP 3360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Social Movements

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3360
• Professor: Michael Temelini

Document Summary

Make demands on the state, but do not seek to form governing party. Groups formed complete, functioning societies, in historic homeland before incorporation in larger state. Substate nations don"t have state where they are majority, but maybe had/sought such a state. Indigenous/aboriginal peoples those whose traditional lands have been overrun by settlers; either forcibly/through treaties, incorporated into states run by people they see as foreigners. Some shared aspects; distinct language, way of life. Autonomy resist integration in majority culture. See selves/demand recognition or acknowledgement as nation, historic society, a people. Ethnic identity how states have responded to ethnic groups. Isolationist ethno-religious groups voluntary self-isolation from larger society: choose marginalization. Demand to be exempt from law, no integration, and avoidance of contact. Temporary migrants refugees, asylum seekers, guest workers. Refugee according to janet dench, refugees are people who are forced to flee people for whom the choice of remaining safely at home was taken away.