Racial Discrimination : Institutional Patterns and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415989879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 316 str.

Kamali Masoud; Masoud Kamali

Opis

This text identifies and investigates the variety of practices that make up the complex phenomena of racism and xenophobia. In systematically analysing 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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).