Majority cultures and the everyday practices of ethnic difference :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
whose house is this? /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Bo Petersson and Katharine Tyler.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 245 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Majority cultures and the everyday politics of ethnic difference -- Mobility, migration control and geopolitical imaginations -- Europe in peril -- City marketing in a dual city : discourses of progress and problems in post-industrial Malmö? -- Debating the rural and the urban : majority white racialized discourses on the countryside and the city -- Local responses to immigrants in the Midwestern United States -- Belonging and entitlement : shifting discourses of difference in multiethnic neighbourhoods in the UK -- Marginal majority and dishevelled otherness : debating Gypsyness on the Greek-Albanian border -- The power of stereotypes and enemy images : the case of the Chechen wars -- European declarations on minorities : the Kurdish quest for Turkey's membership of the European Union -- Local media representations of Islam before 9/11 -- Whose house is this? : the Palestinian 'other' and the construction of Jewish Israeli identity -- The making and breaking of difference : concluding thoughts.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book examines the ways in which 'majority' Western cultures govern, imagine and represent established minorities and recent immigrants. It offers an international perspective drawing upon in-depth case studies from the EU, North America and Middle East. It reviews rapidly developing theories of identity, nationalism and racism. It addresses a very topical issue - how do ordinary people view immigration and its impact? Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically 'other', this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority 'self' and the minority 'other'?"--Jacket.