TEN YEARS OF THE NEW MINORITY POLICY IN SERBIA

Abstract

Uprkos činjenici da je Srbija multikulturna država u kojoj žive brojne etno- -kulturne manjine, uprkos tome što su do sada doneti osnovni propisi koji obezbeđuju prava nacionalnih manjina i uprkos tome što je uspostavljen sistem multikulturalizma, u Srbiji je ostvareno samo delimično priznanje identiteta i prava nacionalnih manjina. To je učinjeno uspostavljanjem procedura, pravila, institucija, mehanizama i instrumenata koji garantuju ostvarivanje prava nacionalnih manjina koje žive i razvijaju svoj identitet pored drugih manjina i nacionalne većine, čineći tako da su bez obzira na postignut visok stepen multikulturalnosti ipak manjine odeljene, uzajamno i od većine udaljene, odnosno getoizirane. To je posledica uspostavljenog tipa segregativnog multikulturalizma koji doprinosi odvojenosti manjina i njihovom su-postojanju, ali ne i povezivanju prožimanjem u jedno integrisano multikulturno društvo.In spite of the fact that Serbia is a multicultural state in which many ethno- -cultural minorities live, that basic regulations have been issued which secure the rights of ethnic minorities, and that a system of multiculturalism has been established, only partial recognition of the identity and rights of ethnic minorities has been accomplished in Serbia. This has been carried out through introducing procedures, rules, institutions, mechanisms and instruments which guarantee the exercise of rights of ethnic minorities which live and develop their own identity alongside other minorities and the ethnic majority, with the actual effect that, regardless of the attained high level of multiculturalism, the minorities are still separated, mutually and with regard to the majority, i.e. ghettoised. This is caused by the established type of segregative multiculturalism, which contributes to the situation in which minorities are separated; they coexist, but are not intermixed in an integrated multicultural society