Racial Discrimination - Institutional Patterns and Politics

Informationen zum Autor Masoud Kamali is Professor of Social Policy at Mid Sweden University and Associate Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University! Sweden. His works include The Segregating Integration (Stockholm: Frtizes! 2006); Beyond 'Us' and 'Them' (Stockholm: Frtizes! 2006); Distorted Integration (Uppsala: Multiethnic Papers! 1997); and Multiple Modernities! Islam and Civil Society (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press! 2006). Klappentext Identifies and investigates the variety of practices that make up the complex phenomena of racism and xenophobia. In systematically analyzing these problems! the author contributes to a deeper understanding of the forces underlying xenophobia and racism and to generating more effective anti-racial and integrative policy making. Zusammenfassung This multidisciplinary text identifies and investigates the variety of practices that make up the complex phenomena of racism and xenophobia. In systematically analyzing these problems, Kamali contributes to a deeper understanding of the forces underlying xenophobia and racism and to generating more effective anti-racial and integrative policy making. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. 1. Modernization, Social Theory and the Duality of ‘Us-and-Them’ 2. Institutional Otherisation, Migration and Racism in Europe 3. The Uprising of Xenophobic Populist Parties and the Reinforcement of Institutional Discrimination 4. Institutional Discrimination in the Labour Market and the Educational System 5. Beyond the European Dilemma and the Categorisation of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’. Notes. References. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Masoud Kamali, Kamali Masoud
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2008
• EAN: 9780415989879
• ISBN: 978-0-415-98987-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ethnic Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General