The Multicultural Dilemma: Migration, Ethnic Politics, and State Intermediation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041562861X ISBN 13: 9780415628617

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

The Multicultural Dilemma This work seeks to explore the contemporary challenge of government in multicultural societies, drawing together a wide range of contributors to examine how ethnic difference could better understood and mediated by modern nation states. Divided into three sections, the book centres round the notion that changing patterns of migration bring escalating obstacles to integration or assimilation. In th... Full description

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Review:

The number of edited volumes covering issues of diversity, multiculturalism, and migrant integration has grown rapidly. Often, they are rather loose collections that cover only a single country or region. This volume deals with ethnic politics, migration, national minorities, nationalism, and conflict resolution in both developed and developing countries. Drawing what in some cases are fresh connections between these knotty topics across a range of contexts, the contributors manage collectively to achieve greater analytical coherence and depth than is found in many more narrowly focused edited works. Several of the chapters are valuable in their own right, moreover, such as Anthony Messina’s thoughtful essay on how to study migrant incorporation in Europe.

Patrick R. Ireland, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

A robust and serious assessment of the politics of ethnicity, language, religion, multiculturalism and common citizenship in managing the ‘dilemma’ between diversity and political unity. Required reading for scholars and policymakers.

Willem Maas, York University, Canada

About the Author:

Michelle Hale Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government, University of West Florida, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 041562861X
• ISBN 13: 9780415628617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Williams Michelle