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Paradoxes of cultural recognition : perspectives from northern Europe / edited by Sharam Alghasi, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Halleh Ghorashi.

Other author/creatorEriksen, Thomas Hylland.
Other author/creatorGhorashi, Halleh.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBurlington, Vt. : Ashgate,
Descriptionxii, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Research in migration and ethnic relations series
Contents Uneasy categories. Engaging with diversity: Europe between imagined homogeneity and enduring cultural difference / Ellie Vasta ; Race and the Dutch: on the uneasiness surrounding racial issues in the Netherlands / Dienke Hondius ; Should integration be the goal? A policy for difference andcommunity / Knut Kjeldstadli ; National identity and the sense of (non-)belonging: Iranians in the United States and the Netherlands / Halleh Ghorashi -- Cultural categori in practice. Discrimination and cultural closure at work: evidence from two Dutch organizations / Hans Siebers ; Ethno-nationalism and education / Joron Pihl ; Avoiding culture and practicing culturalism: labelling practices and paradoxes in Swedish school / Ann Runfors ; Disentangling culture as explanatory factor: the paradox of a client centred approach in social work / Marleen van der Haar ; What difference does it make? Transnational networks and collective engagement among ethnic minorities in Norway / Jon Rogstad -- The migrant's positioning and the public space. The processes of hybridization: cognition, emotion and experience among multicultural youngsters in Rudenga, east side Oslo / Viggo Vestel ; Mix, just mix and see what happens: girls in a super-diverse Amsterdam neighbourhood / Lenie Brouwer and Marion den Uyl ; Fallen Angels: the end of colourful community? / Elisabeth Eide and Anne-Hege Simonsen ; Rethinking national constellations of citizenship: situating the headscarf controversy in the Netherlands? / Doutje Lettinga ; Representations of the other in Norwegian debate programmes 1989-1997 / Sharam Alghasi ; From obsessive egalitarianism to a pluralist universalism? A normative epilogue / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
General noteIncludes indexes.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008035645
ISBN9780754674696 (alk. paper)

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