The multicultural challenge

• Other Authors: Brochmann, Grete
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; London : JAI, 2003.
• Series: Comparative social research ; v. 22.
• Subjects: Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Europe > Congresses.; Immigrants > Services for > Europe > Congresses.; Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Norway > Congresses.; Immigrants > Services for > Norway > Congresses.; Multiculturalism > Europe > Congresses.; Multiculturalism > Norway > Congresses.; Europe > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Congresses.; Norway > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > Congresses.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849502436; 1849502439; 9780762310647; 0762310642
• ISSN: 0195-6310 ;
• DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6310(2003)22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 285 p.)

Cultural pluralisation - reinforced by immigration - has had major consequences for the political agenda in recent years in liberal democratic states. New types of tension have arisen - new forms of social and cultural differentiation, and new patterns of inequality. The diversity also reshapes the...

Table of Contents:

• Citizens of multicultural states : power and legitimacy / Grete Brochmann
• Integration nations ; the nation-state and research on immigrants in western Europe / Adrian Favell
• The shrinking inclusive capacity of the national welfare state : international migration and the deregulation of identity formation / Michael Bommes
• Comparing minority and majority rights: multicultural integration in a power perspective / Tordis Borchgrevink and Grete Brochmann
• The political representation of immigrants in Oslo and Copenhagen: a study of electoral systems and voting behavior / Joahnnes Bergh and Tor Bjørklund
• Political mobilization of ethnic minority women / Lise Togeby
• The trouble with difference: gender, ethnicity, and Norwegian social democracy / Anh Nga Longva
• The importance of being good: power and morality in Norwegian immigration politics / Anniken Hagelund
• What creed in Europe? Social exclusion, citizenship, and a changing EU policy agenda / Carl-Ulrik Schierup
• Ethnicity, social subordination and cultural resistance / Aleksandra ôlund
• From homogeneity to difference? Comparing multiculturalism as a description and a field for claim-making / Giuseppe Sciortino.