| Synopsis: |
The Politics of Identity addresses one of the greatest challenges for the immediate future: the impact of migration, displacement, minority cultures and peoples within the space of larger multicultural states. The book focuses inter alia on the concepts of inclusion and exclusion and the processes of ethnic self-identification, cultural traditions in host countries, ethnic stereotyping and inter-ethnic communications and tensions. Drawing on a wide range of case material and original research on the Americas, the Caribbean and West and East-Central Europe, Politics of Identity provides a rich, varied and invigorating perspective on the social, economic, legal, historical, linguistic and political implications of migration, identity and displacement, provided by an international team of experts. This book will provide an important contribution to the current debate on migration and minority studies at the dawn of a new millennium. |