The Status of New Minorities in Federal Ethiopia: The Case of Benishangul-gumuz Regional State
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bayissa, Regassa (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Teferi, Shibabaw | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-07T09:42:45Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T04:50:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-07T09:42:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T04:50:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The right of minority protection particularly national minorities is guaranteed in both international convention and domestic laws (FDRE Constitution). However, the right of new minorities whether foreigners or internal migrants were/are not yet guaranteed in two consensuses. The main objective of this study is to Analyze, examine, assess, and address the concerns and interests of the new minorities in Ethiopian federation. In fact, the ethnic federalization of territorial arrangements in Ethiopia was erected without taking into account of internal migrants who are territorially dispersed ethnic groups in each region. Currently, they lie to new minority status throughout the country. This research investigated the status of new minorities in areas of recognition, equality and non-discrimination, internal self-determination and self-government, participation and representation rights in federal Ethiopia with particular case study of Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State. For this critical looking down to the existing problems in the study area, in order to interconnect, organize and recommend, the researcher used the qualitative research approach. In accordance with this, the researcher used both primary and secondary sources of data collection. As the result, the finding shows, the status of new or internal regional minorities were remained to less exercising group rights and lessparticipants in the key political position due to lacked consideration and commitments of political bodies, electoral formula, ethno-terrilorial and legal institutional arrangements in study area. So that, this research highly recommended that, both federal and regional government needs to have structural changes. In sense that, the ethno territorial arrangements among the nine federation is dangerous particularly for the new emerged minorities like in BGRS in the areas of sharing and exercising fundamental human and democratic rights. So that, in order to accommodate them better to have establish non-territorial arrangement or personal autonomy in the region. The new minorities need fair and equity representation in BG regional institutional polity. Therefore, to address their interests, the regional government needs to have erect proportional representation and upper house. The last but not the least, the new minorities in BG needs special treatment and protection through independent bodies. So that, both federal and regional government shall be establish special new minority's protection commission bodies in the two levels. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/27101 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa | en_US |
| dc.title | The Status of New Minorities in Federal Ethiopia: The Case of Benishangul-gumuz Regional State | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |