This book provides an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of the major social and political processes affecting Hungarians in Romania after the overthrow of the Communist regime in 1989. The volume highlights the interdependence between the ethno-political strategies of minority elites and Romania's minority policy regime on the one hand, and social processes such as ethnic boundary making and ethnic stratification on the other.The chapters combine perspectives from a variety of disciplines including political science and the sociology of ethnic relations, supported by the findings of a broad array of empirical investigations carried out in Transylvania. It will therefore be of particular interest to scholars and students with a focus on minority politics, ethnic mobilization and nationalism, as well as researchers of ethnic relations, ethnic boundary making, social distances and ethnic inequalities.

Investigates different aspects of the social organization of minority communities

1. Introduction. Unequal Accommodation, Ethnic Parallelism and Increasing Marginality; Tamás Kiss. Part 1: The Minority Rights Regime and Political Strategies.- 2. Minority Political Agency in Historical Perspective: Periodization and Key Problems; Nándor Bárdi & Tamás Kiss.- 3. Unequal Accommodation: An Institutionalist Analysis of Ethnic Claim-Making and Bargaining; Tamás Kiss, Tibor Toró István Gerg¿ Székely.- 4. Language Use, Language Policy and Language Rights; István Horváth Tibor Toró. - Part 2: Ethnic Parallelism: Political Program and Social Reality.- 5. Ethnic Parallelism: Political Program and Social Reality: An Introduction; Tamás Kiss & Dénes Kiss.- 6. Hungarian-Language Education: Legal Framework, Institutional Structure and Assessment of School Performances; Attila Z. Papp, János Márton, István Gerg¿ Székely Gerg¿ Barna.- 7. Churches and Religious Life; Dénes Kiss.- 8. Media Consumption and theHungarian-Language Media in Transylvania; Tamás Kiss.- 9. Economy and Ethnicity in Transylvania; Zsombor Csata.- Part 3. Societal and Demographic Macro-Processes.- 10. Demographic Dynamics and Ethnic Classification: An Introduction to Societal Macro-Processes; Tamás Kiss.- 11. A Changing System of Ethnic Stratification: The Social Positions of Transylvanian Hungarians; Tamás Kiss.- 12. Assimilation and Boundary Reinforcement: Ethnic Exogamy and Socialization in Ethnically Mixed Families; Tamás Kiss.