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Author Sharma, Shailja, author

Title Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France : in the hyphen of the nation-state / Shailja Sharma
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Manchester Religious Studies
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Minorities -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Minorities -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
Minorities -- France -- History -- 20th century
Ethnicity -- Great Britain
Ethnicity -- France
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Ethnicity
Minorities
Race relations
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007006281
France -- Race relations
Subject France
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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