| Description |
ix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Research in migration and ethnic relations series |
|
Research in migration and ethnic relations series.
|
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents -- List of Figures vii -- List of Contributors viii -- Introduction 1 -- Flemming Christiansen and Ulf Hedetoft -- Part I: Trends -- 1 Discourses and Images of Belonging: Migrants between New Racism, -- Liberal Nationalism and Globalization 23 -- Ulf Hedetoft -- 2 The Limits of Diversity: Community beyond Unity and Difference 45 -- Gerard Delanty -- Part II: migrants and belonging -- 3 Ethnic Migrant Minorities and Transnational Claims-Making in Europe: Opportunities and Constraints 61 -- Virginie Guiraudon -- 4 Turkish Transnational Nationalism: How the 'Turks Abroad' Redefine Nationalism 77 -- Riva Kastoryano -- 5 Looking Away from the Black Box: Economy and Organization in the Making of a Chinese Identity in Italy 93 -- Luigi Tomba -- 6 Intermarriage and the Construction of Ethnic Identity: -- European Overseas Chinese Community Leaders' Marriage Ideals 109 -- Xiujing Liang -- Part III: belonging and statehood -- 7 Language Belonging in the New Eastern Europe: -- The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion 127 -- Ray Taras -- 8 Putting Heritage and Identity into Place after Communism: -- Gda?sk, Riga, and Vilnius 147 -- John Czaplicka -- 9 Between Doctrine and Belonging: The Official Language -- of Nation in China 167 -- Flemming Christiansen -- 10 Marking out Boundaries: Politics of Ethnic Identity -- in Southwest China 185 -- Xiaolin Guo -- Part IV: multicultural belonging -- 11 No Joking Matter: The Multiple Identities of Belgium 207 -- Georges van den Abbeele -- 12 Writing Indigenous Belonging: Ownership in the Construction -- of Identity in Japan 221 -- Annette Skovsted Hansen -- 13 The Pan-Ethnic Movement of Taiwanese Aborigines and the Role -- of Elites in the Process of Ethnicity Formation 239 -- Michael Rudolph -- 14 Identity Matters. The Case of the Singaporean Chinese 255 -- Benedicte Brg̜ger -- Index 271 |
| Summary |
This international collection examines how ethnic identity and belonging are created and used politically in Europe and East Asia. The contributors respond to debates about whether and how regional, supranational, transnational, and multicultural identities may compromise nation states, and how nation states deal with such centrifugal forces |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnicity -- East Asia.
|
|
Ethnicity -- Europe.
|
|
Globalization -- Social aspects.
|
|
Group identity.
|
|
Nationalism -- East Asia.
|
|
Nationalism -- Europe.
|
| Author |
Christiansen, Flemming, 1954-
|
|
Hedetoft, Ulf.
|
| LC no. |
2003028033 |
| ISBN |
0754641287 alkaline paper |
|
