Exercises

Compare the citizenship policy and ethnic policy in Latvia and Estonia! What was similar, what was different?

Compare the ethnic policy and citizenship policy of Lithuania with Estonia and Latvia! Why it was so different?

Discuss the question: Whether Estonia and Latvia made right decisions introducing quite exclusive citizenship laws in the early 1990s or the “zero-option” (granting citizenship for all) would have been the better solution?

Search for German Citizenship Law and compare it with Estonian Citizenship Law! Which of them is more liberal towards immigrants?

Compare the problems with immigrants or ethnic minorities in your own home country with the Baltic States!
Tõnis Saarts, Tallinn University 2009