"evropuli qartia saqarTvelo "European Charter for Regional or ...

The problem is complicated by the fact that international law contains
no mutually agreed definitions for such terms as national minority,
historical national minority, new national minority, diaspora, old migrant,
new migrant, etc.; though the definitions have shared features: for
instance, different considerations of specialists on "national minorities"
share general "framework" of definition: a national minority is a nondominant
part of permanently residing population in the country in
question, which differs from the majority of population by its ethnic, religious
and linguistic features and which strives to maintain its unique
identity 435
.
All persons who received citizenship will be regarded as "permanently
residing" citizens, though is a group of suh persons considered as
a national minority?
There is an opinion which suggests considering the second and
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third generations of migrants as national minorities .
New migrants are protected by many international documents;
naturally, they will be covered by neither the "European Charter for Regional
or Minority Languages" nor "Oslo recommendations".
When taking into account the fact that isolatating-confronting the
terms – "national minority" and "ethnic minority" seems to be artificial
and that both integration process and the one aimed at maintaining identity
are intensive in the moder-day world, the following steps might be
reasonable:
To establish parallel terms: "migrated ethnic minority" i.e. diaspora
to denote old migrants who will be covered by the international
documents stipulating "linguistic rights" (rather than – the "European
Charter for Regional or Minority Languages"); and, to apply term: "his-
435 http://www.nplg.gov.ge/glossword/index.php?a=term&d=4&t=1057:
“Managing interethnic relations", Foundation for Human Resources Development,
(Eds.) J. Javakhishvili, N. Sarjveladze, Tbilisi, 2007.
436 For instance, for discussion see: Diaspora cultures; Recommendation 1688 (2004);
Reply from the Committee of Ministers adopted at the 952nd meeting of the Ministers’
Deputies (11 January 2006):
http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc06/EDOC10786.pdf; and
Roberta Medda-Windischer, Historical Minorities and Migrants: Foes or Allies? (Differences
and Similarities Between Old and New Minorities)
http://www.eumap.org/journal/features/2004/migration/pt1/minmigrants
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