Identity processes and dynamics in multi-ethnic Europe / edited by Charles Westin ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westin, Charles.

Series:

IMISCOE research.

IMISCOE research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of identity processes and identity dynamics in a post-colonial, multiethnic European context

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. Identity and inter-ethnic relations; 2. Jews in the Netherlands and their various ties with Judaism; 3. A streetcar named desire: lifestyle and identity of street kids in multi-ethnic Rotterdam; 4. Discrepant perceptions on health and education issues in the Basque Country: del dicho al hecho...; 5. Are you who you know? A network perspective on ethnicity, gender and transnationalism: Albanian-speaking migrants in Switzerland and returnees in Kosovo

6. From local inter-ethnicities to the dynamics of the world-system: identity debates between Portuguese and British Sunnis in Leicester7. Introduction to a study of comparative inter- ethnicrelations: the cases of Portugal and Britain; 8. Frontier identity in Portugal and Russia: a comparative perspective on identity-building in semi-peripheral societies; 9. The Goan elites from Mozambique: migration experiences and identity narratives during the Portuguese colonial period; 10. Identity, integration and associations: Cape Verdeans in the metropolitan area of Lisbon

11. Cape Verdeanness as a complex social construct: analysis of ethnicity through complexity theory12. Different children of different gods: a structural-dynamic approach to using religion in processes of differentiated social insertion; 13. What are we talking about when we talk about identities?; About the authors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9789048506316

904850631X

OCLC:

658186172

Publisher Number:

10.5117/9789089640468