Multiculturalism, Social Cohesion and Immigration

Shifting Conceptions in the UK

Martin Bulmer, John Solomos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-86102-2 (ISBN)

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Multiculturalism, Social Cohesion and Immigration brings together original research that addresses key facets of the changing dynamics of race, multiculturalism and immigration in contemporary British society. The various chapters in this volume tackle important social and political issues such as ethnic diversity and segregation, post-race politics, contact and threat hypotheses, national identity, anti-racist mobilisation and whiteness. It provides an important insight into the dynamics of contemporary British society.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. John Solomos is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Warwick, UK.

1. Introduction 2. Post-race, post politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism 3. Ethnic diversity, segregation, and the social cohesion of neighbourhoods in London 4. Cricket, drinking and exclusion of British Pakistani Muslims? 5. Reconciling the contact and threat hypotheses: does ethnic diversity strengthen or weaken community inter-ethnic relations? 6. Changing claims in context: national identity revisited 7. Whiteness in Scotland: shame, belonging and diversity management in a Glasgow workplace 8. Bringing class back in: class consciousness and solidarity among Chinese migrant workers in Italy and the UK 9. Immigrant narratives and nation-building in a stateless nation: the case of Italians in post-devolution Wales 10. Developing an independent anti-racist model for asylum rights organising in England

Reihe/Serie	Ethnic and Racial Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-86102-2 / 1138861022
ISBN-13	978-1-138-86102-2 / 9781138861022
Zustand	Neuware