Social Construction of Diversity

by Harzig, Christiane; Juteau, Danielle; Schmitt, Irina

• ISBN13: 9781571813756
• ISBN10: 1571813756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship have often remained 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, diversity has become an integral part of people's lives, affecting their personal, institutional, and economic interaction.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Introduction: Recasting Canadian and European History in a Pluralist Perspective
by Christiane Harzig and Danielle Juteau	1	(14)
Part I: Diversity in Everyday Life
1. Assimilation and Ethnic Diversity in France
Ida Simon-Barouh	15	(25)
2. Antagonistic Girls, or Why the Foreigners Are the Real Germans
Nora Räthzel	40	(25)
Part II: Economic Encounters
3. Transnational Migration and Entrepreneurship of Migrants: Between Turkey, Europe, and the Turkic World
Stéphane de Tapia	65	(18)
4. "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
Ching Lin Pang	83	(21)
5. Transnationalism and Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Iranian Diasporic Narratives from the United States, France, England, and Germany
Minoo Moallem	104	(27)
Part III: Incorporating Diversity in Institutions and Legal Systems
6. Democratic Institutional Pluralism and Cultural Diversity
Veit Bader	131	(37)
7. Multiculturalism, Secularism, and the State
Tariq Modood	168	(18)
8. Should National Minorities/Majorities Share Common Institutions or Control Their Own Schools? A Comparison of Policies and Debates in Quebec, Northern Ireland, and Catalonia
Marie McAndrew	186	(26)
9. Family Norms and Citizenship in the Netherlands
Sarah van Walsum	212	(15)
10. Global Migranthood, Whiteness, and the Anxieties of (In)visibility: Italians in London
Anne-Marie Fortier	227	(22)
Part IV: Recasting the Master Narrative in Society
11. Canada: A Pluralist Perspective
Danielle Juteau	249	(13)
12. Of Minority Policy and (Homogeneous) Multiculturalism: Constructing Multicultural Societies on a Nationalist Modelthe Post-World War II "Western" Experience
Christiane Harzig	262	(1714)
13. A State of Many Nations: The Construction of a Plural Spanish Society since	1976
Xosé-Manoel Núñez	284	(24)
Afterword: Difference and Policymaking by Tim Rees	308	(9)
Index	317