Challenging Multiculturalism: Models of Diversity

Taras, Raymond

ISBN 10: 0748664572 / ISBN 13: 9780748664573

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2012

About this Item

Have Europeans become hostile to multiculturalism? When people vote for anti-immigrant parties, do they also support their anti-multicultural policies? This book tackles the challenge of dismantling the multicultural model without destroying diversity in European society. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 672. . 2012. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging Multiculturalism: Models of Diversity
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748664572
• ISBN 13: 9780748664573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In recent years, European political leaders from Angela Merkel to David Cameron have discarded the term multiculturalism and now express scepticism, critique and even hostility towards multicultural ways of organising their societies. Yet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the 11 European countries examined in this book: Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Turkey. The future of European liberalism is being played out as multicultural notions of belonging, inclusion, tolerance and the national home are brought into question.

About the Author

Raymond Taras is Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Australian National University in Canberra and Professor of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans.