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The politics of integration : law, race and literature in post-war Britain and France /

"After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the 'Muslim'. The 'argumen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gill-Khan, Chloe A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Colección:Studies in migration and diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the 'Muslim'. The 'argument' of this book, therefore, is a question: despite the legal, political and social commitments that emerged from the events of the Holocaust, why do both nations continue to govern minorities on the sites of the law and race?Through comparative readings of British Asian and Franco-Maghrebian literatures, the author examines the contours and patterns of British and French post-war governance and racism over four decades. Departing from prevailing theories in postcolonial studies that situate post-war racism within the narrative of colonialism or the politics of the nation-state, The Politics of Integration shows how we must re-appraise the inter-war histories of minorities if we are to ask more meaningful questions about the present. We are invited to take stock of how well theorization of post-war ethnic populations and their politics have served us in terms of asking: what does history tell us, and how and where do we - Europe and its minorities - go from here? As such, the book will appeal to scholars in multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences such as history, philosophy, literature, cultural and postcolonial studies."--Provided by publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 214 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781315580876
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