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Macedonian agenda

Author Editor: Victor Bivell
Publisher Pollitecon Publications
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ISBN / ASIN0646221620
ISBN-139780646221625
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Sales Rank7,736,482
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Macedonian Agenda is the leading reference book about one of Australia's oldest and largest ethnic groups. It explores a wide range of major political, social and human rights issues through 16 essays by 14 leading Macedonian-Australian authors. The book won the 1995 Macedonian Sun Award for cultural achievement. "Useful contribution to dialog on a sensitive issue . The Australian newspaper. A tribute to multiculturalism The Geelong Advertiser. The book explores a number of major themes including: * political issues between Macedonia and its Balkan neighbours, particularly Greece, and their repercussions in Australia * Macedonian history and settlement in Australia * the development of Macedonian values, language, religion and theatre in Australia * the changing role of Macedonian women * the welfare needs of older migrants * the Macedonian identity including the 'Greek' Macedonian identity * the lack of human rights in Aegean Macedonia (northern Greece) including the plight of the child refugees from the Greek Civil War.