Managing Ethnic Diversity

Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective

Reza Hasmath

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317101734
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Social Sciences

The management of ethnic diversity has become a topical and often controversial subject in recent times, with much debate surrounding multiculturalism as a systematic and comprehensive response for dealing with ethnic diversity. This book engages with these debates, examining the tangible outcomes of multiculturalism as a policy and philosophy in a range of traditional and 'newer' multi-ethnic nations. Exploring the questions of whether multiculturalism can promote 'ethnic harmony', employment equity and trust between various minority and non-minority groups, Managing Ethnic Diversity also adopts a comparative perspective on the experiences of multiculturalism in various international contexts, in order to examine whether lessons learned from some jurisdictions can be applied to others. With an international team of experts presenting the latest research from the UK, North America, Europe, China and Australasia, a truly global dialogue is fostered with regard to the utility and limits of multiculturalism in local and comparative contexts. As such, Managing Ethnic Diversity will appeal to social scientists interested in race and ethnicity, multiculturalism and migration.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 The Complexities of Ethnic Diversity
• 2 Can Multiculturalism Build Trust?
• 3 More than a Marketing Strategy: Multiculturalism and Meaningful Life
• 4 The Notion of Multiculturalism in Canada and France: A Question of Different Understandings of Liberty, Equality and Community
• 5 Immigration, Race and the Crisis of National Identity in Canada
• 6 The Identification, Settlement and Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing
• 7 Comparing Ethno-Development Outcomes in Toronto and Taipei
• 8 “Cooling Out Troublesome Constituents”: The Politics of Managing “Isms” in the Antipodes
• 9 Australian Multiculturalism: Beyond Management Models
• 10 Sold Out? The Understanding and Practice of Multiculturalism in the United Kingdom
• 11 Squandered Opportunities: Explaining Austria’s Reticence to Adopt Multicultural Policies
• 12 Whereto for Multiculturalism? The German Debate on Leitkultur and the Promise of Cultural Studies
• 13 A Gemütlich Segregation: Multiculturalism and the Iceman’s Curse in Italy
• Index