ABSTRACT
The book concentrates on socially excluded minorities “marginalized, without power, unable to take decisions over their destiny and often experiencing high levels of illiteracy, undereducation and overt or covert discrimination” (Minority Rights Group International 1997: viii). Even in the most promising situations, after their human rights have been guaranteed in national legislation and international conventions and their governments have eliminated overt discrimination and undertaken compensatory affirmative action, such groups remain among “the poorest of the poor” (ibid.).1
