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The family in question : immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe

Title
The family in question : immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe / edited by Ralph Grillo.
Publication
[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
Grillo, R. D.
Description
312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"The Family in Question shows how those concerned with public policy often unthinkingly reflect the popular imagination and contribute to what in recent times has become a dangerous xenophobic stereotyping of immigrants and their descendants."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
IMISCOE research
Uniform Title
IMISCOE research
Alternative Title
Immigrant and ethnic minorities in multicultural Europe
Subject
  • Immigrant families > Europe > Congresses
  • Minority families > Europe > Congresses
  • Multiculturalism > Europe > Congresses
  • Immigrants > Europe > Social conditions > Congresses
  • Ethnicity > Europe > Congresses
  • Ethnicity
  • Immigrant families
  • Immigrants > Social conditions
  • Minority families
  • Multiculturalism
  • Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
  • Einwanderer
  • Ethnische Gruppe
  • Familie
  • Invandrare > familjeförhållanden > Europa
  • Invandrare > sociala förhållanden > Europa
  • Etnicitet > Europa
  • Europe
  • Europa
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Selected papers from a workshop on 'Debating Cultural Difference: The Family,' held at the University of Sussex in April 2006.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The family in dispute : insiders and outsiders / Ralph Grillo -- Inside and outside : contrasting perspectives on the dynamics of kinship and marriage in contemporary South Asian transnational networks / Roger Ballard -- "For women and children!" : the family and immigration politics in Scandinavia / Anniken Hagelund -- Defining "family" and bringing it together : the ins and outs of family reunification in Portugal / Maria Lucinda Fonseca and Meghann Ormond -- Debating cultural difference : Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam and women / Erik Snel and Femke Stock -- Family dynamics, uses of religion and inter-ethnic relations within the Portuguese cultural ecology / Susana Bastos and José Bastos -- The dream of family : Muslim migrants in Austria / Anna Stepien -- Who cares? : "external," "internal" and "mediator" debates about South Asian elders' needs / Kanwal Mand -- Italian families in Switzerland : sites of belonging or "golden cages?" perceptions and discourses inside and outside the migrant family / Susanne Wessendorf -- Dealing with "that thing" : female circumcision and Sierra Leonean refugee girls in the UK / Radha Rajkotia -- Socio-cultural dynamics in intermarriage in Spain : beyond simplistic notions of hybridity / Dan Rodríguez-García -- Debating culture across distance : transnational families and the obligation to care / Loretta Baldassar.
ISBN
  • 9053568697
  • 9789053568699
LCCN
2009381908
OCLC
  • ocn233548884
  • 233548884
  • SCSB-1495123
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library