Age of Migration Chapter 10

Three key points:

1. Language and culture are both a means of communication and take on a symbolic meaning which is "central to ethnic group cohesion". 
2. There are two types of laws on citizenship: law of the blood and law of the soil. In practice, all states use both of these laws in some way, but most countries may have one that is more dominant. 
3. Some settlers merge into the general population and do not constitute separate communities; some settlers do form ethnic communities; and some settlers form ethnic minorities. The big difference between ethnic communities and minorities is that minorities usually share a disadvantaged socio-economic position and are partially excluded from wider society. 

I would like to talk in class about the difference between making assimilation easier or more accessible and erasure of culture.