Multiculturalism: Critical and Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives / Edited by Kerry Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallagher, K. (Kerry), editor.

Series:

At the Interface

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This ebook collates a volume of scholarly work highlighting crucial debates in the area of multiculturalism. Based within a multiple of contexts each chapter delivers a concise focus on challenges faced by immigrants as they attempt to construct an identity, have cultural recognition and achieve a sense of belonging.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I: Protean Contradictions - Productions of Identities ""; ""Authenticity, Cultural Identity and Horiaon-Based Community - Lo Yan ""; ""Psyche East and West: The Problem of Identity and Strangeness - Choudry ""; ""Is It Possible to Avoid the Exclusionary Power of Culture? - Jarzewicz ""; ""The Concept of Heritage in the Construction of the European Cultural Identity - Lahdesmaki ""

""The Formation of Minority Groups and Network in the Case of Palestinian Students Living in Greece: The Effects of Collective Trauma, Suffering and Belongingness - Mastora and Marouda- Chatjoulis""""Writing New Identities: South Asian Women, North America and Three Asian-American Novels - Bhattacharyya ""; ""Identity Formation and Muslim Women in the UK: the Roles of Religion, Family and Eduction - Murji ""; ""Youth Identities through Bricolage in a Changeable Society: The Case of Georgia - Tsuladze ""; ""Geographies of Intimacy in Jumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth - Ravy ""

""Social Imaginaries and Conflict: Money, Work and Fraud in Czech Republic - Stech """"The Cheongsam: A Site of Wonder and Contestation for Canadian Women of Chinese Heritage - Sim ""; ""Social Imaginaries and Conflict: Money, Work and Fraud in Czech Republic - Stech ""; ""'Are you Chinese?' An Ethnographic Study of chinese Students in Cyprus - Li ""; ""A Dialogue between the Third-World Writers and Their English Audiences: Influence of English Literature int he Urdu Love Poetry of Perveen Shakir in Khushboo - Peters ""

""Mind, Body and Environment in Indigenous Anglophone Writing: Poetic Interventions for a New Modernity - Cuadrado-Fernandez """"The Difference is Our Commonality - Rahimy ""; ""Part II: Culture and the Experience of Everyday Life ""; ""Belonging through Everyday-Life Practices: The Dutch Case - Bekaroglu ""; ""Crioulas Media: Technology, Language and Identity in a Quilombola Community in Brazil - Assis ""; ""Intercultural Communication in Online Games: Obstacles and Opportunities - Mihaila ""

""Between Political Exlusion and Economic Inclusion: Everyday Life Strategies of Moldovan Immigrants in Istanbul - Dagdelen """"Ke Nako (It is Time) to Scrutinise Ubuntu: Negotiating South African Hospitality towards African Immigrants and Refugees in Patricia Schonstein Pinnock's Skyline - Fasselt ""; ""Negotiating the Integration Process of Polish Migrants in Ireland - Gallagher ""; ""Immigrant Canadian New Youth: EXpressing and Exploring Youth Identities in a Multicultural Contect - Wright & Nabavi ""; ""Designing Singaporeans: A Project in Identity Construction - Kearney ""

""Baraka's Revolutionary Theatre: The Role of Culture in the Black Identity Construction in Select Plays - Azouz ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-063-4

OCLC:

891397693

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848880634 DOI