Transnational Ethnic Groups

Transnational Ethnic Groups A Romani musician plays a shawm at a market in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1993. Photo by Terry E. Miller. The European political landscape consists of many small nation-states that tend to be viewed as ethnically homogeneous. In fact, few are, or ever were. They contain minority groups from neighboring countries, such as Swedes in Finland and Turks in Greece; a mix of ethnicities, as in Russia or Bosnia-Hercegovina; minorities lacking their own state, such as the Basques…