Ethnic and Racial Studies
About the Book Series
Race, ethnicity and nationalism are at the heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. The books in this series are based on special issues of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the leading journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world. Expert authors and editors present interdisciplinary research and theoretical analysis, drawing on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, economics, geography, international relations, history, social psychology and cultural studies.
The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism
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By Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
October 27, 2025
This book documents the emergence and development of the theory of racial capitalism in apartheid South Africa. It interrogates the specificity of this theory in the South African context and draws lessons for its global applicability. Racism and capitalism have a long history of entanglement. ...
Migration and Citizenship pathways in/beyond Asia
1st Edition
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By Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
September 17, 2025
This edited volume explores the complex and varied pathways to citizenship that migrants navigate in both sending and receiving countries. By examining the diverse strategies which migrants employ to handle uncertainties and global disparities, this work highlights how citizenship pathways evolve ...
Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents
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By Alejandro Portes, Margarita Rodríguez
August 29, 2025
This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution. The volume results from a comparative project that examines the interface between migration and the development of ...
The Emerging Second Generation in Asia
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By Pei-Chia Lan, Minjeong Kim
August 26, 2025
Presenting six case studies from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong, this volume marks one of the first forums dedicated to the emerging second generation in Asia. It aims to enhance the literature on the second generation, which has predominantly focused on North America and ...
Fighting Discrimination in a Hostile Political Environment: The Case of “Colour-Blind” France
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By Angéline Escafré-Dublet, Virginie Guiraudon, Julien Talpin
January 30, 2025
The book investigates the experience of ethno-racial discrimination in France and the forms that resistance takes in a colour-blind context. Among pluriethnic, multi-religious, post-colonial states with a long immigration history, France holds a specific place in international comparisons due to ...
Reexamining Racism, Sexism, and Identity Taxation in the Academy
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By Tiffany D. Joseph, Laura E. Hirshfield
January 30, 2025
This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities – i.e., “identity taxation” in US higher education institutions. It compiles new research on cultural and identity taxation to highlight how ...
Asian Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the ‘West’
1st Edition
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By Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
May 27, 2024
Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between 'white' and 'Others', yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on 'white' people racializing ‘Others’: whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to this 'white'/'...
Permitted Outsiders: Good Citizenship and the Conditional Inclusion of Migrant and Immigrant Minorities
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By Andreas Hackl
May 27, 2024
National majorities and their governments often demand that immigrants and other minorities must be “good”: they should work hard, contribute to society, and adapt to dominant cultural norms. Such stereotypical labels for national outsiders, ranging from “good immigrants” to “good Muslims” and “...
Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization: Caste, Tribe, and Hindu Nationalism in Transnational Perspective
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By Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Malini Ranganathan, Pavithra Vasudevan
May 27, 2024
Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the ...
Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe: The Politics of Race, Time and Secularism
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By C.J.J. Moses, Tobias Müller, Adela Taleb
May 27, 2024
The role of Islam in public spaces is one of the most prevalent political questions in Europe. Contestations around the construction of mosques, the ban of Islamic veils and populist rhetoric about “problematic” neighbourhoods indicate Europe’s struggles with the place of its second largest ...
Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel
1st Edition
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By Tamir Sorek
January 29, 2024
While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it: the relations between Arab identity, Mizrahi identity, and Israeli nationalism; ...
The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East
1st Edition
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By Burcu Ozcelik
January 29, 2024
This book explores the extent to which race and racialisation offer us an explanatory framework to study the contemporary politics of identity in the Middle East today. Most studies of the Middle East commonly presume that the race signifier is reserved for the juxtaposition of 'Black' and 'White' ...