The multicultural dilemma : migration, ethnic politics and state intermediation /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2013.
Description:xxiv, 256 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/8944676
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Other authors / contributors:Williams, Michelle Hale.
ISBN:9780415628617 (hbk.)
041562861X (hbk.)
9780415631235 (pbk.)
0415631238 (pbk.)
9780203082775 (ebk.)
020308277X (ebk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Multuculturalism and Ethnic Politics through the work of William Safran
  • 1. Introduction: THe Multicultural Dilemma
  • Section 1. Understanding Key Actors in the Growth of Multicultural Societies: Conceptualizing Immigrants and Diaspora
  • 2. The Limitations of Grand Migration Theory: Embedding Experiences of Immigration and Immigrant Incorporation within their Appropriate National, Regional and Local Settings
  • 3. Globalization, Diaspora and Transnationalism: Challenges and Opportunities for the Indian Diaspora
  • Section 2. Factors in Ethnic Identity and Nationalism: Considering the Role of Language, Religion, Citizenship Criteria, Education, and Resource Inequality
  • 4. Conceptualizing the Nation: Myths, Imagined Communities or Multi Ethnic Realities? The Cases of Israel, France, and the United States
  • 5. Do Religion and Language as Identity Markers Promote Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia? A Theoretical Exploration
  • 6. Islamic Identity, Yes, Islamist Parties, No: The Mainstreaming of Political Islam and its Challenge for Islamist Parties
  • 7. The Importance of Citizenship Criteria: Jewishness between Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism during the First World War from the Point of View of André Suarÿs
  • 8. Learning How to Remember: Education and Collective Memory Formation as a Tool in Reconciliation
  • 9. Institutions to Bridge Troubled Waters: Water-User Associations and Interests, Identities, Conflict and Cooperation
  • 10. "Primordialism" and the Study of Nationalism
  • Section 3. Mediating Multicultural Challenges: State and Institutional Responses
  • 11. Consociationalism and Conflict Resolution
  • 12. State and Stateless Nationalisms, Old and New Diversities, and Federal Governance
  • 13. Evaluating Party Politicization of Immigration
  • 14. The Long Twilight of Jaconbinism: Evaluating the French Assimilationist Model
  • 15. Conclusion: Dealing with the Multicultural Dilemma