Ethnic and Racial Studies

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1-10 of 20 results in Ethnic and Racial Studies

1. Health Care and Immigration

   Understanding the Connections

   Edited by Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Alejandro Portes

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform. This volume sets out to answer the question: how do medical institutions...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Gender, Migration and the Media

   Edited by Myria Georgiou

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Michèle Lamont, Nissim Mizrachi

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to these developments. In this book, leading experts from a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from the perspectives of ordinary...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Fighting Discrimination in Europe

   The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach

   Edited by Mathias Möschel, Costanza Hermanin, Michele Grigolo

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   The member states of the EU have only very recently begun to consider race and racism in the framework of equality legislation and policies. As opposed to an established Anglo-Saxon tradition of naming races and using racial categorisation to fight racism, most continental European countries resist...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Irregular Migrants

   Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives

   Edited by Alice Bloch, Milena Chimienti

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   A new era of international migration has been accompanied by increasingly restrictive immigration controls to manage migration to more developed countries. The consequence has been fewer routes to enter and/or stay in countries in a regularised way and as a result, an increase in the...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities

   Visible and Invisible Muslims

   Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft, Jørgen Nielsen

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space. Research into the issues involved has often used visible and formalised expressions of Muslim religiosity as its empirical point of departure. This book instead...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Theorising Integration and Assimilation

   Edited by Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Theorising Integration and Assimilation discusses the current theories of integration and assimilation, particularly those focused on the native-born children of immigrants, the second generation. Using empirical research to challenge many of the dominant perspectives on the assimilation of...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism brings together a range of scholarly research papers to examine the place of international migration in the modern world, starting with the overview of migration and development by Alejandro Portes. There are many aspects to migration today which are treated...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
9. Gender, Race and Religion

   Intersections and Challenges

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   Gender, Race and Religion brings together a selection of original papers published in Ethnic and Racial Studies that address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. Chapters address both theoretical and empirical aspects of this phenomenon, and...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
10. Nationalism and National Identities

    Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countries dealing both with theories and case studies of particular national contexts. Taken together, these papers shed light on the processes through which...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge