Blurred Boundaries
Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship
Published on 3. September 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
354 pages
978-1-84014-893-0 (ISBN)
Description
The underlying themes of this book are forms of cultural diversity which result from migration and globalization. Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis of national cultures, either a single one, a dominant one, or a federation of several. However, political and economic developments have upset traditional patterns and have blurred established boundaries. Ongoing immigration from diverse origins has inserted ethnic minorities into formerly homogeneous populations. The resulting pattern of multiculturalism is different from earlier ones. Often cultural boundaries are neither clearly defined nor do they simply dissolve by assimilation into a dominant group, they have become fuzzy and a constant source of real or imagined hostility and anxiety. A proliferation of mixed identities goes together with stronger claims for cultural rights and escalating conflicts between ethnic minorities and national majorities. In many countries multiculturalism is today perceived as a challenge rather than as an enrichment. The book focuses on the question of how institutions and policies of liberal democracies can cope with these trends.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 170 mm
Width: 240 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84014-893-0 (9781840148930)
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Content
Migration and minorities; the diversity of experiences with diversity; the crossing and blurring of boundaries in international migration; challenges for social and political theory; temporal and spatial aspects of multiculturality; reflections on the meaning of time and space in relation to the blurred boundaries of multicultural societies; changing representations of the other in France - the mirror of migration; multiculturalism a la Canadian and integration a la quebecoise; transcending their limits; the Israeli experience in multiculturalism; multiculturalism from above - Italian variations on European theme; egalitarian multiculturalism - institutional separation and cultural pluralism; groups, rights and citizenship in multicultural contexts; globalization and the ambiguities of national citizenship; cultural pluralism and the subversion of the "taken-for-granted" world; toleration as the public acceptance of difference; how can collective rights and liberalism be reconciled?; bridging the gap - citizenship in Europe and Asia; tensions of citizenship in an age of diversity - reflections on territoriality, cosmopolitanism and symmetrical reciprocity; self-representation and the representation of the other.