Sharma Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France

In the hyphen of the nation-state
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0830-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharma, Shailja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: migrants into minorities
1. Challenges to national citizenship
2. Postcolonial minorities and securitization
3. Race by any other name: Islam and the contestation of citizenship
4. The nation-state's wobbly hyphen: the backlash against multiculturalism
5. Bearers of tradition or oppressed minority: women as citizens
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shailja Sharma is Associate Professor of International Studies at DePaul University