ethnonational group

{{Short description|Group unified by ethnicity and national identity}}

An ethnonational group or ethno-national group is a group that is unified by both a common ethnicity and national identity (or political identity), that asserts historic claims to a territorial homeland. Recently, scholars have begun to use this term to refer to groups that are entitled to self-determination.{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Paul |url=https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2277&context=facsch_lawrev |title=The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement: Evolving the Principle of Self-Determination |publisher=American University Washington College of Law |year=1999 |page=163}} An ethnonational group is different from an ethnic group, as an ethnic group can only be considered an ethnonational group if it is large enough and willing to constitute a nation state.{{Cite book |last=Kostov |first=Chris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P-1m1FLtrvsC&pg=PA16 |title=Contested Ethnic Identity: The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996 |date=2010 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-3-0343-0196-1 |pages=16 |language=en}} An ethnonational group is often the largest group in a nation, that carries its national language and culture, although it can also form a sizeable minority in another state.{{Cite book |last1=Jenkins |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENQQLNe00hIC&pg=PA158 |title=Encyclopedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation |last2=Pigram |first2=John |date=2004-08-02 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-52840-0 |pages=158 |language=en}} According to political philosopher Will Kymlicka, ethnonational groups are groups that formerly had their own states historically, but now find themselves as a minority group within a larger state, often due to military conquest, annexation or unification with another state.{{Cite web |last=Kymlicka |first=Will |date=2004 |title=Culturally Responsive Policies |url=https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/hdr2004willkymlickapdf.pdf |website=Human Development Report Office |page=17 |url-status=unfit}}{{dead link|date=January 2025}}