This comprehensive and innovative volume focuses on the usefulness and relevance of extending the scope of protections already in place for national minorities ("old minorities") to migrant populations ("new minorities") in Europe.

Roberta Medda-Windischer is a Senior Researcher and Research Group Leader for National Minorities, Migration and Cultural Diversity at the Eurac Research Institute for Minority Rights, Italy.

Caitlin Boulter is a Junior Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg, Germany.

Tove H. Malloy is Director at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at the Europa-Universität Flensburg.

1. Introduction: What's in a Name? 2. Deconstructing Myths: What's in the debate on extending the scope of minority rights and policies to immigrants? 3. Francophone Minorities in Canada: Trapped between the new/old minority categories 4. Beyond Legal Categories of Indigeneity and Minority-ness: The case of Roma and falling in-between 5. The Moral of Moral Panic: Minorities and migrants in Denmark 1500-1915 6. The Half-hearted Protection of New Religious Minorities' Fundamental Rights in Europe: A glass half empty and a glass half full 7. Integratedness and Deservingness: A perspective from Romanian Roma in Spain 8. From Security Considerations to De-Securitising the Discourse on 'Old' and 'New' Minorities