Abstract
Minority research has to be regarded as a wide interdisciplinary subject, and the respective sciences take their particular approaches in this field: Scientists of jurisprudence deal with minority rights and minority protection; sociologists treat minorities as particular societal entities; psychologists concentrate on personality structures within these groups. Geography adds "space" as an essential element, be it "container space", "action space", "perception space". Whereas "ethnic groups" are in the focus of interest of many researchers, in modern human geography the term "minority" is applied to all human groups facing "majorities", e.g. "religious minorities", "social minorities" or "lifestyle minorities". Geography analyses the relation of minorities to space and investigates the spatiotemporal changes minorities undergo (segregation, migration). In this context, geography examines residential and social mobility in order to define the reasons and circumstances of such movements. Finally, emphasis has to be laid on conceptualising solutions to resolve conflicts between minorities and majorities.
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