Cover; Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France; Contents; Acknowledgements ; 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
Summary
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
Notes
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