Affirmative action: a cross-natioal debate / Erna Appelt -- Can affirmative action combat racial discrimination? Moral success and political failure in the United States / Anita L. Allen -- Positive action and democracy / Frank Cunningham -- In defence of affirmative action: North American discourses for the European context? / Melissa S. Williams -- Affirmative action in the US: the legal dimension / Luisa Antoniolli Deflorian -- Using historical and sociological evidence to defend anti-discrimination policies / Melinda Chateauvert -- Racial discrimination and affirmative action: Canada's experience with anti-discrimination legislation / Caterina Ventura -- Affirmative action and "race" relatons: affirmative action as a model for Europe / Nathan Glazer -- Positive action in the United Kingdom / Paul Taylor -- Positive action: the Dutch experience / Lilian Gonc̦alves-Ho Kang You and Louise Mulder -- Positive action in Sweden: from central solutions to local responsibility for combating ethnic discrimination / Maritta Soininen and Mark Graham -- The integration of immigrants and refugees in European societies / John Rex -- "We demand that the foreigners adapt to our life-style": political discourse in immigration laws in Austria and the United Kingdom / Ruth Wodak and Maria Sedlak -- Equality as a right: lessons to be learned from EC sex equality law for a multi-dimensional EC anti-discrimination law / Dagmar Schiek -- Combating employment discrimination in Europe: national variation and the dawn of "good practice" / John Wrench -- Relevant legal instruments -- Relevant cases.
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Xenophobia and racism are among the unsolved problems of our time. Globalisation, mass migration and unemployment, as well as the need to invent new supranational identities, create new problems of inclusion and exclusion.