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.
Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice
1st Edition
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By Maria Koinova, Dženeta Karabegović
March 01, 2022
Transitional justice and diaspora studies are interdisciplinary and expanding fields of study. Finding the right combination of mechanisms to forward transitional justice in post-conflict societies is an ongoing challenge for states and affected populations. Diasporas, as non-state actors with ...
Racial Nationalisms: Borders, Refugees and the Cultural Politics of Belonging
1st Edition
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By Sivamohan Valluvan, Virinder S. Kalra
March 01, 2022
This book addresses the centrality of race and racism in consolidating the nationalisms currently prominent in Brexit Britain. Particular attention is given to the issues of refugees, borders and bordering, and the wider forms of nativist and anti- Muslim sentiments that anchor today’s increasingly...
Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and Racial Studies: Classic Papers in Context
1st Edition
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By Martin Bulmer, John Solomos
July 31, 2020
This volume celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ethnic and Racial Studies. It reproduces eleven classic papers published in the journal, accompanied by discussions of each paper by invited specialists, and responses from the original authors. The various discussions in this volume provide an insight...
Affect, Interest and Political Entrepreneurs in Ethnic and Religious Conflicts
1st Edition
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By Arthur A. Stein, Ayelet Harel-Shalev
June 30, 2020
In the current environment, most political violence occurs between internal communities, such as ethnic and religious groups, rather than between states. Such inter-communal conflict threatens both internal political stability and interstate relations. In this edited volume, a multidisciplinary and...
Racialized Bordering Discourses on European Roma
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By Nira Yuval Davis, Georgie Wemyss, Kathryn Cassidy
March 21, 2019
Using detailed examples from Finland, Hungary, Canada and the UK, this book explores relationships between the racialization and discrimination experienced by heterogeneous European Roma populations, and the processes of everyday bordering embedded in state policies and media discourses. In the ...
Immigrant Incorporation in Political Parties: Exploring the diversity gap
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By Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Iris Dähnke, Lea Markard
February 14, 2019
This book seeks to explore the potentialities of strengthening a new field of research within migration and diversity studies, that of immigrant incorporation in political parties. The point of departure of all the contributions to this volume is that there is what we call a ‘diversity gap’ between...
Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
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By Zulema Valdez, Mary Romero
January 31, 2019
Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship brings together a group of eminent and up-and-coming young scholars who apply an intersectional perspective to the study of ethnic entrepreneurship. Against the traditional approach’s emphasis on ethnicity and its primacy, which tends to conflate ...
Chinese Minorities at home and abroad
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By Michael Dillon
January 17, 2019
The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these ...
The Impact of Diasporas: Markers of identity
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By Joanna Story, Iain Walker
October 18, 2018
Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt – language, material culture, patterns of behaviour – and are carefully nurtured between generations; other times they can be invisible, intangible, or unconscious. Such markers of identity also ...
Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa: The Prospects for Transformative Change
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By Will Kymlicka, Eva Pföstl
September 18, 2018
Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their vision of reform, implying that these issues are best deferred to some indefinite future. While many people describe the Arab Spring as a ‘battle for ...
Muslims, Migration and Citizenship: Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion
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By Martin Bulmer, John Solomos
September 18, 2018
Bringing together ten research based contributions, Muslims, Migration and Citizenship addresses questions about the changing experiences of Muslim communities, or specific groups within them, in various national and localised environments. Although not an exhaustive survey of the broad range of ...
Re-configuring Anti-racism
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By Yin Paradies
January 08, 2018
In our interconnected world of increasing racial, ethnic, and religious diversity, racism is an enduring phenomenon with a range of pernicious consequences for individuals, communities, and societies. Despite considerable scholarly attention to race and racism, there has been relatively little ...