Affirmative action, ethnicity, and conflict /

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In recent years a number of countries have introduced affirmative action programmes in order to put right historical injustices and economic inequalities involving ethnic communities. This book examines affirmative action programmes in a range of countries around the world. It discusses how such pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gomez, Edmund Terence, Premdas, Ralph R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2013.
Colección:Routledge Malaysian studies series ; v. 14.
Temas:
Affirmative action programs.
Ethnicity.
Social conflict.
Equality.
Programmes d'action positive.
Ethnicité.
ethnicity.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Affirmative action programs
Equality
Ethnicity
Social conflict
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of tables
  • Notes on the contributors
  • Acknowledgements and preface
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Introduction: affirmative action, horizontal inequalities, and equitable development
  • Poverty, equality, and affirmative action in India
  • Struggle for equality and justice: affirmative action in the United States of America
  • Ethnicity, economy and affirmative action in Malaysia
  • Coerced preferences: affirmative action and horizontal inequality in Fiji
  • Affirmative action in South Africa: disadvantaging the many for the benefit of the few
  • Power-sharing, communal contestation, and equality: affirmative action, identity, and conflict in Northern Ireland
  • Appraising affirmative action in Brazil.

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