1st Edition

Migration and Race in Europe

Edited By Martin Bulmer, John Solomos Copyright 2019
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Migration and Race in Europe covers various facets of the interplay between migration and race in Europe. Over the past two decades there has been a growing public policy and political debate about questions linked to migration and refugee movements across the borders of Europe. This has been evident in countries such as the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany that have had long-established... Read more

Introduction: Migration and race in Europe  1. Dominant or subordinate? The relational dynamics in a protest cycle for undocumented migrant rights  2. Do non-EU immigrants exhibit different patterns of participation in voluntary associations from those of natives and EU immigrants?  3. "I don’t mean to sound racist but…" Transforming racism in transnational Europe  4. Performing whiteness: racism, skin colour, and identity in Western Switzerland  5. The relation between religiosity and Muslims’ social integration: a two-wave study of recent immigrants in three European countries  6. The "migrant with poor prospects": racialized intersections of class and culture in Dutch civic integration debates  7. Public attitudes towards support for migrants: the importance of perceived voluntary and involuntary migration  8. The experience of discrimination among newly arrived Poles in Ireland and the Netherlands  9. "Your name does not tick the box": the intertwining of names, bodies, religion and nationality in the construction of identity within the UK asylum system  10. Right choice, wrong motives? Narratives about prestigious educational choices among children of immigrants in Norway  11. Guest, trader or explorer: biographical perspectives on the experiences of cross-border mobility in Europe

Biography

Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author and editor of many books.



John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. His most recent publications are Race, Multiculture and Social Policy (with Alice Bloch and Sarah Neal, 2013) and Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations (with Karim Murji, 2014).