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Title

The social construction of diversity : recasting the master narrative of industrial nations / edited by Christiane Harzig and Danielle Juteau ; with Irina Schmitt.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harzig, Christiane.
• Juteau Lee, Danielle.

Description

xii, 324 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Cultural pluralism
• Multiculturalism
• Cultural Diversity
• multiculturalism
• Plurale samenleving
• Multiculturele samenlevingen

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Diversity in everyday life. Assimilation and ethnic diversity in France / Ida Simon-Barouh -- Antagonistic girls, or why the foreigners are the real Germans / Nora Räthzel. Part II: Economic encounters. Transnational migration and entrepreneurship of migrants : between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic world / Stéphane de Tapia -- "Too busy working, no time for talking": Chinese small entrepreneurs, social mobility, and the transfer of cultural identity in Belgium, Britain, and the Netherlands at the margins of multicultural discourse / Ching Lin Pang -- Transnationalism and immigrant entrepreneurship : Iranian diasporic narratives from the United States, France, England, and Germany / Minoo Moallem. Part III: Incorporating diversity in institutions and legal systems. Democratic institutional pluralism and cultural diversity / Veit Bader -- Multiculturalism, secularism, and the state / Tariq Modood -- Should national minorities/majorities share common institutions or control their own schools? A comparison of policies and debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Catalonia / Marie McAndrew -- Family norms and citizenship in the Netherlands / Sarah van Salsum -- Global migranthood, whiteness, and the anxieties of (in)visibility : Italians in London / Anne-Marie Fortier. Part IV: Recasting the master narrative in society. Canada : a pluralist perspective / Danielle Juteau -- Of minority policy and (homogeneous) multiculturalism : constructing multicultural societies on a nationalist model-the post-World-War II "Western" experience / Christiane Harzig -- A state of many nations : the construction of a plural Spanish society since 1976 / Xosé-Manoel Núñez.

ISBN

• 1571813756
• 9781571813756

LCCN

2003043673

OCLC

• ocm51810485
• 51810485
• SCSB-8804447

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library