The social construction of diversity : recasting the master narrative of industrial nations / edited by Christiane Harzig and Danielle Juteau ; with Irina Schmitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harzig, Christiane.

Juteau Lee, Danielle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Recasting Canadian and European History in a Pluralist Perspective / Christiane Harzig, Danielle Juteau 1

Part I Diversity in Everyday Life

1. Assimilation and Ethnic Diversity in France / Ida Simon-Barouh 15

2. Antagonistic Girls, or Why the Foreigners Are the Real Germans / Nora Rathzel 40

Part II Economic Encounters

3. Transnational Migration and Entrepreneurship of Migrants: Between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic World / Stephane de Tapia 65

4. "Too Busy Working, No Time for Talking": Chinese Small Entrepreneurs, Social Mobility, and the Transfer of Cultural Identity in Belgium, Britain, and the Netherlands at the Margins of Multicultural Discourse / Ching Lin Pang 83

5. Transnationalism and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Iranian Diasporic Narratives from the United States, France, England, and Germany / Minoo Moallem 104

Part III Incorporating Diversity in Institutions and Legal Systems

6. Democratic Institutional Pluralism and Cultural Diversity / Veit Bader 131

7. Multiculturalism, Secularism, and the State / Tariq Modood 168

8. Should National Minorities/Majorities Share Common Institutions or Control Their Own Schools? A Comparison of Policies and Debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Catalonia / Marie Mc Andrew 186

9. Family Norms and Citizenship in the Netherlands / Sarah van Walsum 212

10. Global Migranthood, Whiteness, and the Anxieties of (In)visibility: Italians in London / Anne-Marie Fortier 227

Part IV Recasting the Master Narrative in Society

11. Canada: A Pluralist Perspective / Danielle Juteau 249

12. Of Minority Policy and (Homogeneous) Multiculturalism: Constructing Multicultural Societies on a Nationalist Model

the Post-World War II "Western" Experience / Christiane Harzig 262

13. A State of Many Nations: The Construction of a Plural Spanish Society since 1976 / Xose-Manoel Nunez 284

Afterword: Difference and Policymaking / Tim Rees 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1571813756

OCLC:

51810485