Diversity in the European Union

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-38197-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European Union, and provides a tapestry of cases that illustrate minority politics and activism, contestations over identity and difference, and the construction of new meanings of European citizenship.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thiel, Markus

Prügl, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: INTRODUCTION Understanding Diversity in the European Integration Project; M.Thiel  & E.Prügl The European Union's Policies to Safeguard and Promote Diversity; J.Swiebel PART II: MIGRANTS AND MUSLIMS The Success and Failure of Integration Policy in France and Britain; M.Schain Mainstreaming Third Country National Integration; E.Ucarer Migrant Women: Negotiating Complex Social Inequalities in the Frameworks of Gender Mainstreaming, Managing Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination; H.Schwenken New Muslim Pluralism and Secular Democracy in Turkey and the EU; M.Somer  & G.Tol PART III: SEXUAL MINORITIES AND GENDER Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Resisting Gay Rights in Poland and Latvia; C.O'Dwyer  & K.Schwartz 'LGBT' go Luxembourg: On the Stance of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Rights before the European Court of Justice; G.von Toggenburg Intersectionality, Inequality and EU Law; A.Elman Intersectional Discrimination: Difficulties in the Implementation of a European Norm; S.Vasiljevic PART IV: NATIONAL AND CULTURAL MINORITIES Let Freedom Reign: The Impress of EU Integration on Minority Survival; C.Williams European Integration and Ethnic Mobilization in Newly Admitted Countries: The Case of the Hungarian Minority in Romania; L.Bucsa European Norms, Local Interpretations: Minority Rights Issues and Related Discourses in Lithuania after EU Expansion; D.Budryte  & V.Pilinkaite-Sotirovic Conclusion: Theorizing Diversity in the European Union; M.Thiel  & E.Prügl

Über Autor(innen)

ELISABETH PRÜGL is Professor of Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, USA.

MARKUS THIEL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, USA.