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The Social Construction of Diversity : Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations / ed. by Danielle Juteau, Christiane Harzig.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781571813763
  • 9781782389606
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  • 305 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION Recasting Canadian and European History in a Pluralist Perspective -- Part I DIVERSITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- One — ASSIMILATION AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN FRANCE -- Two — ANTAGONISTIC GIRLS, OR WHY THE FOREIGNERS ARE THE REAL GERMANS -- Part II ECONOMIC ENCOUNTERS -- Three — TRANSNATIONALMIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MIGRANTS Between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic World -- Four — “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 -- Five — TRANSNATIONALISM AND IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP Iranian Disporic Narratives from the United States, France, England, and Germany -- Part III INCORPORATING DIVERSITY IN INSTITUTIONS AND LEGAL SYSTEMS -- Six — DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONAL PLURALISM AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY -- Seven — MULTICULTURALISM, SECULARISM, AND THE STATE -- Eight — SHOULD NATIONALMINORITIES/MAJORITIES SHARE COMMON INSTITUTIONS OR CONTROL THEIR OWN SCHOOLS? AComparison of Policies and Debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Catalonia -- Nine — FAMILY NORMS AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE NETHERLANDS -- Ten — GLOBALMIGRANTHOOD, WHITENESS, AND THE ANXIETIES OF (IN)VISIBILITY Italians in London -- Part IV RECASTING THEMASTER NARRATIVE IN SOCIETY -- Eleven — CANADA A Pluralist Perspective -- Twelve — OFMINORITY POLICY AND (HOMOGENEOUS) MULTICULTURALISM Constructing Multicultural Societies on a Nationalist Model—the Post–World War II “Western” Experience -- Thirteen — A STATE OF MANY NATIONS The Construction of a Plural Spanish Society since 1976 -- AFTERWORD Difference and Policymaking -- INDEX
Summary: Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through detailed studies, this volume shows how the diversity affects the personal lives of individuals, how it shapes and changes private, national and international relations and to what extent institutions and legal systems are confronted with changing demands from a more culturally diverse clientele. Far from being an external factor of society, this volume shows, diversity has become an integral part of people's lives, affecting their personal, institutional, and economic interaction.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION Recasting Canadian and European History in a Pluralist Perspective -- Part I DIVERSITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- One — ASSIMILATION AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN FRANCE -- Two — ANTAGONISTIC GIRLS, OR WHY THE FOREIGNERS ARE THE REAL GERMANS -- Part II ECONOMIC ENCOUNTERS -- Three — TRANSNATIONALMIGRATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MIGRANTS Between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic World -- Four — “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 -- Five — TRANSNATIONALISM AND IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP Iranian Disporic Narratives from the United States, France, England, and Germany -- Part III INCORPORATING DIVERSITY IN INSTITUTIONS AND LEGAL SYSTEMS -- Six — DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONAL PLURALISM AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY -- Seven — MULTICULTURALISM, SECULARISM, AND THE STATE -- Eight — SHOULD NATIONALMINORITIES/MAJORITIES SHARE COMMON INSTITUTIONS OR CONTROL THEIR OWN SCHOOLS? AComparison of Policies and Debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Catalonia -- Nine — FAMILY NORMS AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE NETHERLANDS -- Ten — GLOBALMIGRANTHOOD, WHITENESS, AND THE ANXIETIES OF (IN)VISIBILITY Italians in London -- Part IV RECASTING THEMASTER NARRATIVE IN SOCIETY -- Eleven — CANADA A Pluralist Perspective -- Twelve — OFMINORITY POLICY AND (HOMOGENEOUS) MULTICULTURALISM Constructing Multicultural Societies on a Nationalist Model—the Post–World War II “Western” Experience -- Thirteen — A STATE OF MANY NATIONS The Construction of a Plural Spanish Society since 1976 -- AFTERWORD Difference and Policymaking -- INDEX

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Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through detailed studies, this volume shows how the diversity affects the personal lives of individuals, how it shapes and changes private, national and international relations and to what extent institutions and legal systems are confronted with changing demands from a more culturally diverse clientele. Far from being an external factor of society, this volume shows, diversity has become an integral part of people's lives, affecting their personal, institutional, and economic interaction.

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In English.

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