Non-Dominant Groups in Kosovo:

Kosovo Serbs hold 10 of these seats, while the remaining 10 are divided among the other minorities included in the Constitution.8 Moreover, during the first two electoral mandates following the adoption of the Constitution, minorities in Kosovo had the additional advantage of also participating in the distribution of the 100 seats which were not guaranteed.9 While the multi-ethnic constitutional a. [...] Non-dominant minorities in Kosovo and different layers of de(securitisation) The last section of the article examines the different characteristics and concerns of each non-dominant minority in Kosovo and highlights the gap between formal status and actual implementation of minority rights and provisions, and Kosovo’s own exclusion-amid-inclusion (EAI) dilemma: By explicitly accommodating the inte. [...] During the 1990s, in the context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the 1992 outbreak of the Bosnian war, many Muslims and other people with cultural ties to Bosnia and Herzegovina adopted the term ‘Bosniak’ and started to advance the Bosnian language as distinct from Serbo-Croatian (Baldwin, 2006). [...] 290) argued, “the necessity on the part of the minority (and indeed also the majority) for group distinctiveness necessarily blocks this same way out: the language of the individual is subordinated to the language of the collective.” Therefore, even though Kosovo Bosniaks have been among the well-integrated minorities, the post-conflict and post-independence measures and legislation consolidate gr. [...] In 2002, GIG became a political party based in the municipality of Dragash with the main purpose of advancing the rights and interests of the Gorani minority in Kosovo and held the Gorani guaranteed seat in the Kosovo Assembly after the 2010 elections.