Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition

Discusses central issues regarding multiculturalism in Europe, based on studies of Norway and the Netherlands. Distinguishing the four social fields of the media, education, the labour market and issues relating to gender, this book presents empirical case studies, which offer insights into the nature of majority/minority relationships. Top page

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Mobility is becoming a key issue in social theory, with people moving between countries on diverse grounds and in diverse ways whether as tourists, refugees, students, temporary workers, labour migrants or family members of prior migrants. In this setting characterized by flux, minorities are often marked by their alleged culture, which is then taken to account for their relative successes or failures in adapting to their host society; culture also being invoked in accounts of social problems such as crime, educational failures and oppression of women.Explicity comparative in its approach, "Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition" discusses central issues regarding multiculturalism in today's Europe, based on studies of Norway and the Netherlands. Distinguishing clearly the four social fields of the media, education, the labour market and issues relating to gender, it presents empirical case studies, which offer valuable insights into the nature of majority/minority relationships, whilst raising theoretical questions relevant for further comparisons.With clear comparisons of integration and immigration policies in Europe and engagement with the questions surrounding the need for more culturally sensitive policies, this volume will be of interest to scholars and policy makers alike. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited

City: Aldershot

Pages: 272

More info: height 234 mm width 156 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 305.906912 Library of Congress Subject: Immigrants - Cultural assimilation - Norway

Record updated at: 10 June, 2013 time: 20:14

Summary Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition Introduction, Sharam Alghasi, Halleh Ghorashi and Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Section I Uneasy Categories: Engaging with diversity: Europe between imagined homogeneity and enduring cultural difference, Ellie Vasta; Race and the Dutch: on the uneasiness surrounding racial issues in the Netherlands, Dienke Hondius; Should integration be the goal? A policy for difference and community, Knut Kjeldstadli; National identity and the sense of (non)belonging: Iranians in the United States and the Netherlands, Halleh Ghorashi.; Section II Cultural Categories in Practice: Discrimination and cultural closure at work: evidence from 2 Dutch organizations, Hans Siebers; Ethno-nationalism and education, Joron Pihl; Avoiding culture and practising culturalism: labelling practices and paradoxes in Swedish school, Ann Runfors; Disentangling culture as explanatory factor: the paradox of a client centred approach in social work, Marleen van der Haar; What difference does it make? Transnational networks and collective engagement among ethnic minorities, Jon Rogstad.; Section III The Migrant's Positioning and the Public Space: The processes of hybridization: cognition, emotion and experience among multicultural youngsters in 'Rudenga', East side Oslo, Viggo Vestel; 'Mix, just mix and see what happens': girls in a super-diverse Amsterdam neighbourhood, Lenie Brouwer and Marion den Uyl; Fallen angels: the end of colourful community?, Elisabeth Eide and Anne Hege Simonsen; Rethinking national constellations of citizenship: how to situate the headscarf issue in the Netherlands, Doutje Lettinga; Representations of the other in Norwegian debate programmes 1989-1997, Sharam Alghasi; From Obsessive egalitarianism to a pluralist universalism? A normative epilogue, Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Index. Top page

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