Postcolonial Minorities in Britain and France - In the Hyphen of the Nation-State

Informationen zum Autor Shailja Sharma is Associate Professor of International Studies at DePaul University Klappentext An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration. Zusammenfassung An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries! and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity! acceptance and integration. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: migrants into minorities1. Challenges to national citizenship2. Postcolonial minorities and securitization3. Race by any other name: Islam and the contestation of citizenship4. The nation-state's wobbly hyphen: the backlash against multiculturalism5. Bearers of tradition or oppressed minority: women as citizensIndex

Product details

• Authors: Shailja Sharma, Sharma Shailja
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2016
• EAN: 9781784993993
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-399-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Religion and Politics, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism