World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

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‘Belgium: right to vote/foreigners’, Robert Schuman Foundation Letter 155, 23 February 2004.

Alen, A. and Ergec, R., Federal Belgium after the Fourth State Reform of 1993, Brussels, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1994.

Dirk J., ‘The debate over enfranchisement of foreign residents in the Netherlands and Belgium: absence of the ethnic minority voice?’, in Joint Sessions of the European Consortium for Political Research, Mannheim, Germany, 1999.

Fidrmuc, J. and Ginsburgh, V., ‘Languages in the European Union: the quest for equality and its cost’, CEPR Discussion Paper, 2005, retrieved May 2007, http://ssrn.com/abstracts=694481

Irving, R.E., The Flemings and the Walloons of Belgium, London, MRG, 1980.

Jamin, J., Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Belgium, Liège, CEDEM, 2003.

Lambert, P., La Participation politique des allochtones en Belgique – Historique et situation bruxelloise, Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia-Bruylant (coll. Sybidi Papers), juin 1999.

Laponce, J., ‘Babel and the market: geostrategy for minority languages’, in J. Maurais (ed.), Languages in a Globalising World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
MRG, Minorities and Autonomy in Western Europe, London, MRG, 1991.

Neels, K., ‘Social mobility and equal opportunities: the case of Turkish and Moroccan minorities in Belgium’, Population Association of America, 16th Annual Meeting, 1998.

Wolff, S. (ed.), German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging, Oxford, Berghahn, 2001.

Flemings

Fiers, J., ‘The Flemish community of Belgium’, European Journal for Education and Law 1, 1997, pp. 111–16.

Doorbrak [monthly magazine of the Vlaamse Volksbeweging]: http://www.doorbraak.org/
Flanders Online: http://www.flandersonline.org/en/flanders.php

Gorik [quarterly publication for Brussels of the Vlaamse Volksbeweging]: http://www.gorik.be/

VlaanderenDeLeeuw [web portal for Flemish organizations]: http://www.vlaanderendeleeuw.be

Bureau of the Chamber of Local Authorities of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, CPL/BUR(14)2, Information report on the fact-finding visit to Belgium concerning the non-appointment by the Flemish authorities of three mayors, 21 May 2008. 

Walloons

Destatte, P., L’Identité wallonne: essai sur l’affirmation politique de la Wallonie (XIX–XXèmes siècles), Institut Jules Destrée.

L’Arsouye [Walloon cyber-gazette] http://www.arsouye.com/index.php

Germans

Mercator-Education, The German language in education in Belgium, 2004

Belgische Rundfunk (BRF), http://www.brf.be/brf

Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft (German-Language Community portal), http://www.dglive.be

Grenz-Echo/Netecho (daily newspaper and online service), http://www.grenzecho.be/DE/zeitung/default.asp

Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft (Parliament of the German-Language Community), http://www.dgparlament.be

A.Vanden Boer, 2009, ‘Does Belgium´s language policy concerning German fit the population´s needs?' Available at: http://alppi.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Anneleen.pdf

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