Multiculturalism Books

New and Published Books

1. Bilingual Pre-Teens

   Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany

   By Janet M. Fuller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories. Fuller chooses for...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Cultural Studies of Transnationalism

   Edited by Handel Wright, Meaghan Morris

   This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world. With contributions from scholars with experience of cultural life and the work of education in various regions, countries and locales - from...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
4. Islam and Education

   Edited by Tahir Abbas

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   Volume I of this new Routledge collection focuses on theories of education. The gathered materials explore and analyse the impact of the classical Islamic period in history and the developments in education which have emanated from it. Volume II focuses on education in Eastern Europe and Muslim...

   Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge
5. Islam in the West

   Edited by David Westerlund, Ingvar Svanberg

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   In recent decades, the number of Muslims in the West has increased rapidly, and interesting transformations of Islam have taken place—to some extent with repercussions in Islamic or predominantly Muslim countries in Asia and Africa. This new four-volume Major Work collection from Routledge helps to...

   Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge
6. Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond

   The War On "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary, 2nd Edition

   By Joseph Nevins

   This is a major revision and update of Nevins’ earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up to...

   Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge
7. Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation

   By Mohammad Qadeer

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan’s likely future direction. Pakistan examines how tradition...

   Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
8. Connecting Cultures

   Edited by Emma Bainbridge

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe. Those interactions have been both destructive and richly productive, and the consequences continue to 'trouble...

   Published March 17th 2009 by Routledge
9. Managerial Competence within the Tourism and Hospitality Service Industries

   Global Cultural Contextual Analysis

   By John Saee

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   This book examines cross-cultural managerial competence across all managerial functions. Focusing particularly on the hospitality and tourism industry, editor Saee examines the cross-cultural implications of planning: workplace communication, recruitment/promotion, induction, training, supervision,...

   Published December 4th 2008 by Routledge
10. Outside in the Teaching Machine

    By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial...

    Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge