Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project (1945+)
- URL
- http://www.mar.umd.edu/mar_data.asp
- Description
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Tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. Focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have 'political significance' in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions. Political significance is determined by: (1) The group collectively suffers, or benefits from, systematic discriminatory treatment compared to other groups in a society and (2) The group is the basis for political mobilization and collective action in defense or promotion of its self-defined interests.
- Sample
- Format
- Series - ongoing
- Country
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgz Republic (Kyrgyzstan), Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Congo, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikstan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
- Title
- Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project (1945+)
- Format
- Series - ongoing