The Editor: Johan Leman is a professor of anthropology and interethnic relations at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is director of Merib, the Migration and Ethnicity Research Institute of Brussels. He is also director of the federal Center for equal opportunities and opposition to racism in Brussels. The author has published on Mediterranean cultures, bicultural education, interethnic relations and on undocumented migrants.

«The articles are very readable and clearly illustrate the factors at play in emerging ethnicities in confrontation. The collection makes a helpful contribution to the understanding of the dynamics of immigrant ethnicity in Western countries which have immigrant populations.» (Josien Folbert, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations)

• Contents: Mediterranean Immigrant Ethnicities – KMT Chinese in Northern Thailand – Ethnicity, Language and Religion of the Suryoye – Ethnicity and Historicity in Transylvania – ‘Biological’ Christianity and Ethnicity in Spain – Indigenous and Immigrant Ethnicity – Supra-ethnic processes.