Immigrant and minority policy's views on minority cultures have been redefined several times. The most radical change in the Swedish minority policy took place 2000 when Sweden ratified Council of Europe's conventions on national minorities. The new minority policy implies that two different categories of minorities, with different protection, status and rights, have been constituted: national minorities and immigrants. The project analyses images of "minority culture" as well as "immigrant culture" when this minority policy was launched, when it was enforced as well as few years after its implementation. The general problem is whether the construction of distinct cultural identity leads to a (more) positive representation for the national minorities, and vice versa, if the construction of distinct cultural identity results in a racialised representation of immigrants. The theoretical framework stems from literature and culture sociology and focuses on categories race/ethnicity and sex/gender. The analysis of two minority categories with different statuses and a model of analysis that includes both the macro and micro level of society provide knowledge about the construction of immigrant and minority cultures. The project also deals with the question how formal rights influence identity and culture and how they are conceived.