ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the competing and complementing understandings of “minorities within minorities” at the supranational level in Europe. In this chapter, Dolores Morondo Taramundi shows that there is a substantive discussion on these types of minorities at the supranational level in Europe. This discussion tends to deal with four different understandings of cultural diversity (i.e., interstate cultural diversity, transstate cultural diversity, intrastate cultural diversity and cultural diversity resulting from globalization and immigration flows). This chapter shows that, paradoxically, the term and concept of “multiculturalism,” which is often associated with cultural diversity, and which is frequently articulated in pejorative terms by European leaders, is in fact conspicuously absent in new and emerging European supranational legal and policy frameworks dealing with “minorities within minorities.”
