%0 Journal Article
%T Legal Regulations and the National Identity of Members of the Belarusian Minority in Poland
%A Budyta-Budzyńska, Małgorzata
%J Zoon Politikon
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/2543408XZOP.18.005.10061
%N Special Issue 2018
%P 91-111
%K Act on national minorities, Belarusian minority in Poland, memorials, Romuald Rajs “Bury”
%@ 2082-7806
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zoon-politikon/article/legal-regulations-and-the-national-identity-of-members-of-the-belarusian-minority-in-poland
%X 
	In the article I address Polish-Belarusian relations in the Białystok region in the second decade of the 21st century — twelve years since the adoption of an Act on national and ethnic minorities and regional language. I discuss changes brought about by the new legislation, how they are assessed by leaders of the minority group, and the possible impact of the bill on the sense of national identity among Belarusians in Poland. In the second part of the article, I describe the main conflict between the Polish majority and the Belarusian minority, which concerns the memory and commemoration of the so-called damned soldiers, and of one of them in particular: Romuald Rajs, alias “Bury”.

	This Article is made in Open Access, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 license.
	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.pl

	This article is a translated and modified version of the text that was published in the previous issue of “Zoon Politikon”. See:
	Małgorzata Budyta-Budzyńska, Mniejszość białoruska w Polsce – dwanaście lat po przyjęciu ustawy o mniejszościach narodowych i etnicznych oraz o języku regionalnym,
	"Zoon Politikon" (8) 2017, DOI: 10.4467/2543408XZOP.17.011.9268.