Minoranze e intercultura: migrazioni, genere, diritti umani; Minorities and interculturalism: migrations, gender and human rights

L'articolo cerca di definire il concetto di minoranza ripercorrendo alcuni punti chiave sia teorici che a livello del suo sviluppo storico. In un momento di grandi tensioni sociali, dovuto alla crisi di valori europea e di difficoltà economiche, e di fronte a un fenomeno migratorio di dimensione senza precedenti, il concetto di minoranza, in relazione al problema della loro protezione, diventa centrale. The article tries to define the concept of minority retracing some conceptual and historical milestones. At a time of great social tensions, due to the economic and European values crisis, and facing a migration phenomenon of unprecedented size, the concept of minorities, in connection with the issue of their protection, becomes central. In this scenario, the connection of the intercultural approach with human rights and equal opportunities for “old” and “new” minorities – for instance, migrants, women, LGBT, people with disabilities etc. – is in the foreground and asks to be dealt with from a theoretical, political and practical point of view. In the last paragraphs, it is made an excursus on the process of minorities’ inclusion/integration in the education system in Italy in connection with the requests of intercultural education.