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Minority

Minority - a group which is numerically inferior to the rest of the population of a State and in a non-dominant position, whose members possess ethnic, religious or linguistic characteristics which differ from those of the rest of the population and who, if only implicitly, maintain a sense of solidarity directed towards preserving their culture, traditions, (From IOM glossary (2011) accessed at http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Glossary%202nd%20ed%20web.pdf)


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