Economic Exclusion of Ethnic Minorities: On the Importance of Concept Specification
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 18 pages, pdf Description: This issue brief is a plea for a more systematic investigation into the concept of economic exclusion of ethnic minorities.1 What does “economic exclusion” exactly mean? How does it relate to the broader and more established phenomenon of social exclusion? Is economic exclusion, especially when applied to historical ethnic minorities, worthwhile studying in its own right, or is it just a fashionable reframing of “older” development concepts such as poverty or inequality? It is exactly these questions that this issue brief attempts to shed some light on.