Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism

Zusatztext All contributors are experts on migration! globalisation! multiculturalism! transnationalism or ethnic studies and among them one finds some of the best scholars in the field [...] Vertovec's own work and excellent choice of co-authors paves a path 'forward' in the respective field - Kristina Toplak! Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts! Slovenia Informationen zum Autor Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Klappentext This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions - both theoretical and methodological - for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism. Zusammenfassung This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions – both theoretical and methodological – for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: New directions in the anthropology of migration and multiculturalism Steven Vertovec 2. An excess of alterity? Debating difference in a multicultural society Ralph Grillo 3. How exceptional is New York? Migration and multiculturalism in the empire city Nancy Foner 4. Super-diversity and its implications Steven Vertovec 5. Complexity in social and cultural integration: Some analytical dimensions Thomas Hylland Eriksen 6. Rescaling cities, cultural diversity and transnationalism: Migrants of Mardin and Essen Ayse Caglar 7. The two faces of transnational citizenship Michael Peter Smith 8. Risk, trust, gender and transnational cousin marriage among British Pakistanis Katharine Charsley 9. Migration, assimilation and the cultural construction of identity: Navajo perspectives Louise Lamphere

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vertovec Steven
• Con la collaborazione di: Steven Vertovec (Editore), Vertovec Steven (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.07.2009
• EAN: 9780415499361
• ISBN: 978-0-415-49936-1
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Ethnic and Racial Studies; Ethnic & Racial Studies; Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples