The Social Construction of Diversity

Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-57181-375-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through detailed studies, this volume shows how the diversity affects the personal lives of individuals, how it shapes and changes private, national and international relations and to what extent institutions and legal systems are confronted with changing demands from a more culturally diverse clientele. Far from being an external factor of society, this volume shows, diversity has become an integral part of people's lives, affecting their personal, institutional, and economic interaction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harzig, Christiane

Juteau, Danielle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Recasting Canadian and European History in a Pluralist Perspective

Christiane Harzig and Danielle Juteau

Part I: Diversity in Everyday Life

Chapter 1. Assimilation and Ethnic Diversity in France

Ida Simon-Barouh

Chapter 2. Antagonistic Girls, or Why the Foreigners Are the Real Germans

Nora Räthzel

Part II: Economic Encounters

Chapter 3. Transnational Migration and Entrepreneurship of Migrants: Between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic World

Stéphane de Tapia

Chapter 4. “Too Busy Working, No Time for Talking”: Chinese Small Entrepreneurs, Social Mobility, and the Transfer of Cultural Identity in Belgium, Britain, and the Netherlands at the Margins of Multicultural Discourse

Ching Lin Pang

Chapter 5. Transnationalism and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Iranian Diasporic Narratives from the United States, France, England, and Germany

Minoo Moallem

Part III: Incorporating Diversity in Institutions and Legal Systems

Chapter 6. Democratic Institutional Pluralism and Cultural Diversity

Veit Bader

Chapter 7. Multiculturalism, Secularism, and the State

Tariq Modood

Chapter 8. Should National Minorities/Majorities Share Common Institutions or Control Their Own Schools? A Comparison of Policies and Debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Catalonia

Marie McAndrew

Chapter 9. Family Norms and Citizenship in the Netherlands

Sarah van Walsum

Chapter 10. Global Migranthood, Whiteness, and the Anxieties of (In)Visibility: Italians in London

Anne-Marie Fortier

Part IV: Recasting the Master Narrative in Society

Chapter 11. Canada: A Pluralist Perspective

Danielle Juteau

Chapter 12. Of Minority Policy and (Homogeneous) Multiculturalism: Constructing Multicultural Societies on a Nationalist Model - the Post–World War II “Western” Experience

Christiane Harzig

Chapter 13. A State of Many Nations: The Construction of a Plural Spanish Society since 1976

Xosé-Manoel Núñez

Afterword: Difference and Policymaking

Tim Rees

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harzig, Christiane
Christiane Harzig (1952-2007) was Assistant Professor at Bremen University where she taught North American History and published widely on migration in Europe and North America.

Juteau, Danielle
Danielle Juteau is Professor of Sociology at the Université of Montréal and holds a chair in Ethnic Relations at the Centre for Ethnic Studies. Her work focuses on the construction and transformation of ethnic and gender relations.

Christiane Harzig (1952-2007) was Assistant Professor at Bremen University where she taught North American History and published widely on migration in Europe and North America.