1st Edition

Population, Ethnicity, And Nationbuilding

By Calvin Goldscheider Copyright 1995
301 Pages
by Routledge

301 Pages
by Routledge

301 Pages
by Routledge

This volume focuses on the linkages between ethnicity and population processes in the context of nation-building. Using historical and contemporary illustrations in a variety of countries, parts of this complex puzzle are scrutinized through the prisms of sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and demography Themes of ethnic group formation and transformation, persistence and... Read more
Brown University Studies in Population and Development -- Preface -- Population, Ethnicity, and Nation-Building: Themes, Issues, and Guidelines1 -- Ethnic Diversity and Change in Southeast Asia -- Economic Patterns, Migration, and Ethnic Relationships in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China -- Ethnic Conflict, History, and State Formation in Africa1 -- Fact and Myth: Discovering a Racial Problem in Brazil1 -- Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Israel: The Importance of Demographic Factors -- Demographic Sources of the Changing Ethnic Composition of the Soviet Union1 -- The Cultural Partitioning of Canada: Demographic Roots of Multinationalism1 -- On the Structure of Ethnic Groups: Crisscrossing Ties of Ethnicity, Social Class, and Politics in Europe1 -- Ethnic Definition, Social Mobility, and Residential Segregation in the United States

Biography

Calvin Goldscheider