Ethnic and Racial Studies
About the Book Series
Race, ethnicity and nationalism are at the heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. The books in this series are based on special issues of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the leading journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world. Expert authors and editors present interdisciplinary research and theoretical analysis, drawing on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, economics, geography, international relations, history, social psychology and cultural studies.
Asian Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the ‘West’
1st Edition
Edited
By Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
May 27, 2024
Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between 'white' and 'Others', yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on 'white' people racializing ‘Others’: whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to this 'white'/'...
Permitted Outsiders: Good Citizenship and the Conditional Inclusion of Migrant and Immigrant Minorities
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Hackl
May 27, 2024
National majorities and their governments often demand that immigrants and other minorities must be “good”: they should work hard, contribute to society, and adapt to dominant cultural norms. Such stereotypical labels for national outsiders, ranging from “good immigrants” to “good Muslims” and “...
Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization: Caste, Tribe, and Hindu Nationalism in Transnational Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Malini Ranganathan, Pavithra Vasudevan
May 27, 2024
Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the ...
Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe: The Politics of Race, Time and Secularism
1st Edition
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By C.J.J. Moses, Tobias Müller, Adela Taleb
May 27, 2024
The role of Islam in public spaces is one of the most prevalent political questions in Europe. Contestations around the construction of mosques, the ban of Islamic veils and populist rhetoric about “problematic” neighbourhoods indicate Europe’s struggles with the place of its second largest ...
Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamir Sorek
January 29, 2024
While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it: the relations between Arab identity, Mizrahi identity, and Israeli nationalism; ...
The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Burcu Ozcelik
January 29, 2024
This book explores the extent to which race and racialisation offer us an explanatory framework to study the contemporary politics of identity in the Middle East today. Most studies of the Middle East commonly presume that the race signifier is reserved for the juxtaposition of 'Black' and 'White' ...
The Sexual Politics of Border Control
1st Edition
Edited
By Billy Holzberg, Anouk Madörin, Michelle Pfeifer
January 29, 2024
The Sexual Politics of Border Control conceptualises sexuality as a method of bordering and uncovers how sexuality operates as a key site for the containment, capture and regulation of movement. By bringing together queer scholarship on borders and migration with the rich archive of feminist, Black...
Diversity in Local Political Practice
1st Edition
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By Karen Schönwälder
September 25, 2023
In what ways do local authorities respond to the increasing socio-cultural heterogeneity of urban populations? While other studies have often focused on policy declarations, the eight chapters in this book provide rich evidence on the content and implementation of local policies. Furthermore, ...
Everyday Multiculturalism in/across Asia
1st Edition
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By Jessica Walton, Anita Harris, Koichi Iwabuchi
September 25, 2023
What does it mean to bring Asia into conversation with current literature on everyday multiculturalism? This book focuses on the empirical, theoretical and methodological considerations of using an everyday multiculturalism approach to explore the ordinary ways people live together in difference in...
New Trends in Intra-European Union Mobilities: Beyond Socio-Economic and Political Factors
1st Edition
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By Anastasia Bermudez, Laura Oso
September 25, 2023
Mobilities within the European Union (EU) have changed significantly since the classical intra-regional migrations of the 1950s–1970s. After a period of reduced, less visible flows in the 21st century mobilities increased again, first linked to EU expansion towards the East, and from 2008, with ...
Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times
1st Edition
Edited
By John Solomos
September 25, 2023
This edited collection brings together social scientists working on race and ethnicity to address the question of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on issues linked to racial and ethnic inequalities. The fourteen chapters that make up this collection were produced during the ...
The End of Compassion: Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation
1st Edition
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By Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
September 25, 2023
This book brings together the most recent and the most comprehensive collection of articles on a population at risk: the children of immigrants in the United States, especially those children whose parents came to the country without legal authorization. The end of compassion and the shift to ...