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Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France : In the hyphen of the nation-state /
This book examines how Britain and France, with their different political histories, are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and demonstrates how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status an...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | This book examines how Britain and France, with their different political histories, are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and demonstrates how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration. |
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| Description: | Introduction: migrants into minorities 1. Challenges to national citizenship 2. Postcolonial minorities and securitization 3. Race by any other name: Islam and the contestation of citizenship 4. The nation-state's wobbly hyphen: the backlash against multiculturalism 5. Bearers of tradition or oppressed minority: women as citizens Index. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781526108302 |