Social Construction of Diversity

Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through detailed studies, this volume shows how the diversity affects the personal lives of individuals, how it shapes and changes private, national and international relations and to what extent institutions and legal systems are confronted with changing demands from a more culturally diverse clientele. Far from being an external factor of society, this volume shows, diversity has become an integral part of people's lives, affecting their personal, institutional, and economic interaction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-11-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN:9781571813763

Utforska kategorier

Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Christiane Harzig (1952-2007) was Assistant Professor at Bremen University where she taught North American History and published widely on migration in Europe and North America.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Recasting Canadian and European History in a Pluralist PerspectiveChristiane Harzig and Danielle JuteauPart I: Diversity in Everyday LifeChapter 1. Assimilation and Ethnic Diversity in FranceIda Simon-BarouhChapter 2. Antagonistic Girls, or Why the Foreigners Are the Real GermansNora RäthzelPart II: Economic EncountersChapter 3. Transnational Migration and Entrepreneurship of Migrants: Between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic WorldStéphane de TapiaChapter 4. “Too Busy Working, No Time for Talking”: Chinese Small Entrepreneurs, Social Mobility, and the Transfer of Cultural Identity in Belgium, Britain, and the Netherlands at the Margins of Multicultural DiscourseChing Lin PangChapter 5. Transnationalism and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Iranian Diasporic Narratives from the United States, France, England, and GermanyMinoo MoallemPart III: Incorporating Diversity in Institutions and Legal SystemsChapter 6. Democratic Institutional Pluralism and Cultural DiversityVeit BaderChapter 7. Multiculturalism, Secularism, and the StateTariq ModoodChapter 8. Should National Minorities/Majorities Share Common Institutions or Control Their Own Schools? A Comparison of Policies and Debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and CataloniaMarie McAndrewChapter 9. Family Norms and Citizenship in the NetherlandsSarah van WalsumChapter 10. Global Migranthood, Whiteness, and the Anxieties of (In)Visibility: Italians in LondonAnne-Marie FortierPart IV: Recasting the Master Narrative in SocietyChapter 11. Canada: A Pluralist PerspectiveDanielle JuteauChapter 12. Of Minority Policy and (Homogeneous) Multiculturalism: Constructing Multicultural Societies on a Nationalist Model - the Post–World War II “Western” ExperienceChristiane HarzigChapter 13. A State of Many Nations: The Construction of a Plural Spanish Society since 1976Xosé-Manoel NúñezAfterword: Difference and PolicymakingTim ReesIndex

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