1st Edition

Racial Discrimination Institutional Patterns and Politics

By Masoud Kamali Copyright 2009
324 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

8 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

There is an institutionalized dilemma in Europe that counteracts social cohesion and stability. It is a result of the collision and incompatibility between declarations of universal values (such as human rights and democracy) and institutionalized actions which exclude and discriminate against Europeans of immigrant background and against ethnic minorities. This book analyzes the institutional... Read more

Introduction.  1. Modernization, Social Theory and the Duality of ‘Us-and-Them’  2. Institutional Otherisation, Migration and Racism in Europe  3. The Uprising of Xenophobic Populist Parties and the Reinforcement of Institutional Discrimination  4. Institutional Discrimination in the Labour Market and the Educational System  5. Beyond the European Dilemma and the Categorisation of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’.  Notes.  References.  Index.

Biography

Masoud Kamali is Professor of Social Policy at Mid Sweden University and Associate Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden. His works include The Segregating Integration (Stockholm: Frtizes, 2006); Beyond ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ (Stockholm: Frtizes, 2006); Distorted Integration (Uppsala: Multiethnic Papers, 1997); and Multiple Modernities, Islam and Civil Society (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006).