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.
Books, Bodies and Bronzes: Comparing Sites of Global Citizenship Creation
1st Edition
Edited
By Peggy Levitt, Pál Nyíri
August 09, 2017
One out of every seven people in the world today is on the move, voluntarily and involuntarily, within countries and between them. More and more people belong to several communities at once and yet the social contract between state and citizen is still bounded by questions of nationality. Where ...
Cities, Diversity and Ethnicity: Politics, Governance and Participation
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Bulmer, John Solomos
June 07, 2017
This volume brings together a variety of studies on the question of cities, ethnicity and diversity. Contributions cover various facets of life in contemporary cities, ranging from the role which street markets play in diverse neighbourhoods, to everyday multiculture in a specific street, the role ...
Comparing Super-Diversity
1st Edition
Edited
By Fran Meissner, Steven Vertovec
June 07, 2017
The concept of ‘super-diversity’ has received considerable attention since it was introduced in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2007, reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social complexity. This book brings together a collection of essays which empirically ...
Multiculturalism, Social Cohesion and Immigration: Shifting Conceptions in the UK
1st Edition
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By Martin Bulmer, John Solomos
May 24, 2017
Multiculturalism, Social Cohesion and Immigration brings together original research that addresses key facets of the changing dynamics of race, multiculturalism and immigration in contemporary British society. The various chapters in this volume tackle important social and political issues such as ...
Race, Migration and Identity: Shifting Boundaries in the USA
1st Edition
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By Martin Bulmer, John Solomos
May 24, 2017
The chapters in this collection cover diverse aspects of the changing meanings and boundaries of race, migration and identity in the contemporary United States. The situation in the USA has been the subject of intense policy and political debate over the past decades and the papers in this volume ...
New Racial Landscapes: Contemporary Britain and the Neoliberal Conjuncture
1st Edition
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By Malcolm James, Helen Kim, Victoria Redclift
November 10, 2016
The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis. A key aspect of neoliberal thought is the belief that we live in a ‘post-racial’ society in which the problems of racism and xenophobia have been overcome. ...
Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
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By Michèle Lamont, Nissim Mizrachi
November 10, 2016
Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to these developments. In this book, leading experts from a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from the perspectives of ordinary ...
Race Critical Public Scholarship
1st Edition
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By Karim Murji, Gargi Bhattacharyya
October 27, 2016
This edited collection addresses the challenges for critically engaged research, teaching and scholarship on race and racism in a climate marked by sweeping changes in universities. Each chapter engages with debates about universities and ‘publics’, and the public orientation and reach of academic ...
Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders: Blood and Shadow
1st Edition
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By Matthew W. Hughey
October 19, 2016
Secret and private organizations, in the form of Greek-letter organizations, mutual aid societies, and civic orders, together possess a storied and often-romanticized place in popular culture. While much has been made of these groups’ glamorous origins and influence—such as the Freemasons’ genesis ...
Migrants and Their Children in Britain: Generational Change in Patterns of Ethnic Minority Integration
1st Edition
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By Anthony Heath
June 08, 2016
Do second-generation ethnic minorities, those born and brought up in Britain, increasingly adopt British attitudes, values and ways or life, or do they, as some commentators have claimed, remain isolated from the mainstream? This study maps the extent of generational change among Britain’s ethnic ...
Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity: The Challenge of Enumeration
1st Edition
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By Patrick Simon, Victor Piché
May 11, 2016
By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate. Every country had been affected by what is commonly known as cultural pluralism, as a result of conflicts interpreted from an ethnic perspective, for instance, in the Balkans and central Africa; nationalist ...
Cosmopolitan Sociability: Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks
1st Edition
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By Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller, Sandra Gruner-Domic
May 11, 2016
This book approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and aspirations. Cosmopolitan Sociability critiques definitions of cosmopolitanism as a tolerance for cultural ...