KONSTITUTIVNOST NEKONSTITUTIVNIMA - U posjeti kod “Ostalih” građana BiH
CONSTITUENCY OF NON-CONSTITUENTS - Visiting the „Other“ citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: This article is in fact a record of non-constituent citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, of all the peoples and ethnicities subsumed under rather vacant category of „Others“ by present Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The text was written as a part of the project of the European Union and the Internews BiH – the first production institution that enabled the rehabilitation of memory with the public of Bosnia and Herzegovina of the fact that there are living communities in our country that do not belong to one of the three of its 'constituent peoples'. Regardless the fact of constitutional discrimination expressed in the very Preamble of the Constitution, numerous citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, eligible to vote however non-eligible to be elected as a member of Presidency of their very own country (Article V of the Constitution), express rather higher degree of citizenship identity then some of the members of country's constituen peoples. Although their territorial origin varies, 'Others' in general have long time ago become deeply incorporated in cultural and political community of Bosnia and Herzegovina and thus became its autochtonous citizens in its full sense. The story of national minorities – the 'non-constituents' - is also the story about political tragedy of the 'constituents' who have forgoten, during war and postwar days, the true meaning of words such 'multiculturality' and 'multiethnicity'.

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