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

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Author:

Williams, Michelle Hale.

ISBN:

9780203082775

9780415628617

9780415631235

Publication Information:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 256 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: the multicultural dilemma / Michelle Hale Williams -- pt. I Understanding key actors in the growth of multicultural societies: conceptualizing immigrants and diaspora -- 2.The limits of grand migration theory: embedding experiences of immigration and immigrant incorporation within their appropriate national, regional, and local settings / Anthony M. Messina -- 3.Globalization, diaspora, and transnationalism: challenges and opportunities for the Indian diaspora / Ajaya Kumar Sahoo -- pt. II 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 multiethnic realities? The cases of Israel, France, and the United States / Nancy Kwang Johnson -- 5.Do religion and language as identity markers promote ethnocentrism and xenophobia? A theoretical exploration / Raymond Taras --

Contents note continued: 6.Islamic identity, yes, Islamist parties, no: the mainstreaming of political Islam and its challenge for Islamist parties / Julie Chernov Hwang -- 7.The importance of citizenship criteria: Andre Suares and Jewishness in Germany between ethnicity, religion, and nationalism / Jean Tournon -- 8.Learning to remember: education and collective memory formation as a tool in reconciliation / Philip W. Barker -- 9.Institutions to bridge troubled waters: water-user associations and interests, identities, conflict, and cooperation / Jenny R. Kehl -- 10."Primordialism" and the study of nationalism / John Coakley -- pt. III Mediating multicultural challenges: state and institutional responses -- 11.Consociationalism and conflict resolution / Adrian Guelke -- 12.State and stateless nationalisms, old and new diversities, and federal governance / Luis Moreno -- 13.Evaluating party politicization of immigration / Michelle Hale Williams --

Contents note continued: 14.The long twilight of Jacobinism: evaluating the French assimilationist model / Steven Majstorovic -- 15.Conclusion: grappling with ethnic difference in multicultural societies / Michelle Hale Williams.

Subject Term:

Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.

Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.

Ethnicity -- Political aspects.

Multiculturalism.

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Williams, Michelle Hale.

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Summary

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 the first section, contributors focus on the theory that immigrants are the actors that catalyze contemporary multicultural dilemmas within states, with a particular focus on diaspora and how a diaspora community may differ in some ways from other kinds of immigrant community. Section two identifies key factors in shaping ethnic identity before moving on to examine the state of the debate over whether identity can be changed or manipulated. The contributors to this section provide valuable insights into the catalysts and causes of ethnic division and tension, by showing factors in the development of ethnic identity. In the third section, the focus turns to strategies for mediating multicultural challenges and managing internal diversity in multicultural society, offering structural and institutional solutions with evidence of application in specific cases and country contexts.

Offering a comprehensive overview of this pressing issue and drawing on a wide range of case studies, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, political sociology & race and ethnic studies.