Multicultural Challenge / Edition 1

by Grete Brochmann

Overview

Cultural pluralisation - reinforced by immigration - has had major consequences for the political agenda in recent years in liberal democratic states. New types of tension have arisen - new forms of social and cultural differentiation, and new patterns of inequality. The diversity also reshapes the frame of reference for traditional policy instruments employed by modern welfare states: new issues arise that are linked to rights, legitimacy and policy measures of a general and targeted nature. This volume in the "Comparative Social Research" series addresses a number of issues related to this new diversity. Common themes are multiculturalism, power and integration, and these themes are analysed through a comparative lens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762310647
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	10/29/2003
Series:	Comparative Social Research , #22
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Integration nations - the nation-state and research on immigrants in Western Europe, A. Favell; the shrinking capacity of the national welfare state - international migration and the deregulation of identity formation, M. Bommes; comparing minority and majority rights - multicultural integration in a power perspective, T. Borchgrevink, G. Brochmann; the political representation of immigrants in Oslo and Copenhagen - a study of electoral systems and voting behavior, J. Bergh, T. Bjorklund; political mobilization of ethnic minority women, L. Togeby; the trouble with difference - gender, ethnicity, and Norwegian social democracy, A.N. Longva; the importance of being good - power and morality in Norwegian immigration politics, A. Hagelund; what creed in Europe? social exclusion, citizenship, and a changing EU policy agenda, C-U. Schierup; ethnicity, social subordination and cultural resistance, A. Lund; from homogeneity to difference? comparing multiculturalism as a description and a field for claim-making, G. Sciortiono.