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Politics
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- ISBN 9780748644520
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Proposes a common European intellectual framework to evaluate recent developments in European multiculturalismThe heightened security awareness in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the London and Madrid bombings has resulted in a 'crisis of multiculturalism'. Now is the time to look at the renewed challenges that multiculturalism faces today.Each chapter in this interdisciplinary book reviews the actual state of affairs in several countries in relation to the theories behind immigrant minority claims. With a special focus on Muslim immigrants, the contributors look at the value issues entrenched in multiculturalism and the policy challenges and measures adopted to address them.Key Features• Focuses on 7 European countries - Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and Spain • Gives an overview of different approaches to multiculturalism • Looks at issues of citizenship, diversity, civic recognition, gender, religious diversity & education, integration, anti-discrimination policies and social policy
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou directs the Cultural Pluralism Research Area at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Nasar Meer is Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow
