Politics of Identity: Migrants and Minorities in Multicultural States

Product Description The Politics of Identity addresses one of the greatest challenges for the immediate future: the impact of migration, displacement, minority cultures and peoples within the space of larger multicultural states. The book focuses inter alia on the concepts of inclusion and exclusion and the processes of ethnic self-identification, cultural traditions in host countries, ethnic stereotyping and inter-ethnic communications and tensions. Drawing on a wide range of case material and original research on the Americas, the Caribbean and West and East-Central Europe, Politics of Identity provides a rich, varied and invigorating perspective on the social, economic, legal, historical, linguistic and political implications of migration, identity and displacement, provided by an international team of experts. This book will provide an important contribution to the current debate on migration and minority studies at the dawn of a new millennium. About the Author ROBERT HUDSON is Senior Lecturer in European Studies (History and Politics) in the School of European and International Studies at the University of Derby. Formerly he taught at the Université de Haute Bretagne - Rennes II, France and spent a post-graduate scholarship year at the University of Sarajevo, SFRJ. Since 1994 he has been involved in a variety of activities in the Yugoslav successor states, including several missions with the OSCE and humanitarian aid organisations. FRED RÉNO is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane and is director of CRPLC (Centre de Recherche sur les Pouvoirs Locaux dans la Caribe). Formerly he was Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Université de Haute Bretagne - Rennes II.