Paradoxes of cultural recognition
Subtitle: perspectives from northern Europe
By: by Sharam Alghasi, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Halleh Ghorashi.
Contributors: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.; Ghorashi, Halleh.
Series: Research in migration and ethnic relations series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780754674696
Subjects: Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Norway; Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Netherlands
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sharam Alghasi, Halleh Ghorashi and Thomas Hylland Eriksen; title: Engaging with diversity : Europe between imagined homogeneity and enduring cultural difference / Ellie Vasta; title: Race and the Dutch : on the uneasiness surrounding racial issues in the Netherlands / Dienke Hondius; title: Should integration be the goal? A policy for difference and community / Knut Kjeldstadli; title: National identity and the sense of (non)belonging : Iranians in the United States and the Netherlands / Halleh Ghorashi; title: Discrimination and cultural closure at work : evidence from two Dutch organizations / Hans Siebers; title: Ethno-nationalism and education / Joron Pihl; title: Avoiding culture and practicing culturalism : labelling practices and paradoxes in Swedish school / Ann Runfors; title: Disentangling culture as explanatory factor : the paradox of a client centred approach in social work / Marleen van der Haar; title: What difference does it make? transnational networks and collective engagement among ethnic minorities / Jon Rogstad; title: The processes of hybridization : cognition, emotion and experience among multicultural youngsters in "Rudenga", east side Oslo / Viggo Vestel; title: "Mix, just mix and see what happens" : girls in a super-diverse Amsterdam neighbourhood / Lenie Brouwer and Marion den Uyl; title: Fallen Angels : the end of colourful community? / Elisabeth Eide and Anne-Hege Simonsen; title: Rethinking national constellations of citizenship : how to situate the headscarf issue in the Netherlands? / Doutje Lettinga; title: Representations of the other in Norwegian debate programmes 1989-1997 / Sharam Alghasi; title: From obsessive egalitarianism to a pluralist universalism? a normative epilogue / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.