The social construction of diversity : recasting the master narrative of industrial nations /
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| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2003. |
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| Description: | xii, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5046402 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Recasting Canadian and European History in a Pluralist Perspective
- Part I. Diversity in Everyday Life
- 1.. Assimilation and Ethnic Diversity in France
- 2.. Antagonistic Girls, or Why the Foreigners Are the Real Germans
- Part II. Economic Encounters
- 3.. Transnational Migration and Entrepreneurship of Migrants: Between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic World
- 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 Discourse
- 5.. Transnationalism and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Iranian Diasporic Narratives from the United States, France, England, and Germany
- Part III. Incorporating Diversity in Institutions and Legal Systems
- 6.. Democratic Institutional Pluralism and Cultural Diversity
- 7.. Multiculturalism, Secularism, and the State
- 8.. Should National Minorities/Majorities Share Common Institutions or Control Their Own Schools? A Comparison of Policies and Debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Catalonia
- 9.. Family Norms and Citizenship in the Netherlands
- 10.. Global Migranthood, Whiteness, and the Anxieties of (In)visibility: Italians in London
- Part IV. Recasting the Master Narrative in Society
- 11.. Canada: A Pluralist Perspective
- 12.. Of Minority Policy and (Homogeneous) Multiculturalism: Constructing Multicultural Societies on a Nationalist Model--the Post-World War II "Western" Experience
- 13.. A State of Many Nations: The Construction of a Plural Spanish Society since 1976
- Afterword: Difference and Policymaking
- Index
