Immigration and Self-government of Minority Nations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immigration and Self-government of Minority Nations write by Ricard Zapata-Barrero. This book was released on 2009. Immigration and Self-government of Minority Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the last two decades, the debate on multiculturalism has been one-dimensional. It has deployed arguments related to cultural demands linked either to feminism, immigration, or national minorities. Little attention has been given to the relations between these dimensions, and how they affect each other. The purpose of this book is to set a research agenda around the interaction between cultural demands of immigrants and minority nations. The primary aim is to establish basic normative arguments while advancing an institutional analysis in three contexts: Quebec, Flanders and Catalonia. Each part contains two chapters that address the topic in terms of how immigration is seen from a self-government perspective, or how self-government is interpreted from an immigration perspective. The different chapters raise questions related to how this interaction challenges the idea of a culturally homogeneous nation-state, and also pushes us to other conceptualisations of «political community» and de-nationalised forms of citizenship. Current debates on diversity have failed to address these issues in societies where a dual belonging exists.
Competing States
Competing States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Competing States write by Alexandre Couture Gagnon. This book was released on 2013. Competing States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
Not "A Nation of Immigrants" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not "A Nation of Immigrants" write by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. This book was released on 2021-08-24. Not "A Nation of Immigrants" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. She explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.
Multicultural Citizenship
Multicultural Citizenship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multicultural Citizenship write by Will Kymlicka. This book was released on 1996-09-19. Multicultural Citizenship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain sorts of `collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity, can be answered. However, Professor Kymlicka emphasises that no single formula can be applied to all groups and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. The book discusses issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession - issues which are central to understanding multicultural politics, but which have been surprisingly neglected in contemporary liberal theory.
Extending Protection to Migrant Populations in Europe
Extending Protection to Migrant Populations in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extending Protection to Migrant Populations in Europe write by Roberta Medda-Windischer. This book was released on 2019-07-16. Extending Protection to Migrant Populations in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive and innovative volume focuses on the usefulness and relevance of extending the scope of protections already in place for national minorities ('old minorities') to migrant populations ('new minorities') in Europe. Delving into a highly relevant but under-researched issue, the book examines the feasibility of expanding the system of protection for national minorities to migrant groups, as well as considering issues of diversity, security, socio-economic concerns and identity. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, and combining insights from political science, law, sociology and anthropology, it asks the central question of how far the extension of policies and rights currently specific to national minorities is conceptually meaningful and beneficial to the integration of ‘new’ minorities. In doing so, it questions the feasibility and appropriateness of extending the scope of the protections already in place for national minorities to other categories of population. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of European Union politics, migration studies, minority studies and more broadly of sociology, international law and human rights.
