Scapegoats and Social Actors: The Exclusion and Integration of Minorities in Western and Eastern Europe

251 Pages·1998·23.86 MB·English

by  Danièle Joly (auth.)

SCAPEGOATS AND SOCIAL ACTORS
MIGRATION, MINORITIES AND CITIZENSHIP
General Editors: Zig Layton-Henry, Professor of Politics and Director of
the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick; and
Daniele Joly, Director Designate, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations,
University ofW arwick
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Scapegoats and Social
Actors
The Exclusion and Integration of
Minorities in Western and Eastern Europe
Daniele Joly
Director Designate
Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations
University of Warwick
in association with CENTRE FOR
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
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Joly,Danièle.
Scapegoats and social actors : the exclusion and integration of
minorities in Western and Eastern Europe / Daniele Joly.
p. cm. — (Migration, minorities, and citizenship)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-17723-2 (cloth)
1. Minorities—Europe. 2. Europe—Ethnic relations. 3. Racism-
-Europe. I. Title. II. Series.
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on the Contributors Xl
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Racial and ethnic discrimination in Europe:
past, present and future 13
Asbj¢rn Eide
Chapter 2 Racism within the general crisis of Western
ci vilization 35
forg Aft
Chapter 3 New racism in Germany 55
fochen Blaschke
Chapter 4 The Romany minority in the Czech lands 87
Zdenka farabova
Chapter 5 Discrimination and prejudice: minorities in
Romania 101
loan Aluas and Liviu Matei
Chapter 6 Minority rights: some new intergovernmental
approaches in Europe 112
Alan Phillips
Chapter 7 The political sociology of a multicultural society 137
fohn Rex
Chapter 8 Antiracist mobilization in France and Britain in
the 1970s and 1980s 155
Cathie Lloyd
Chapter 9 Connecting ethnicity, 'race', gender and class in
ethnic relations research 173
Floya Anthias
Chapter 10 Present trends in women's migration:
the emergence of social actors 192
Giovanna Campani
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Chapter 11 Circe or Penelope? An analysis of the
problematique of Latin-American women in
exile 218
Angela Xavier de Brito and Ana Vasquez
Index 235
Acknowl edgements
This volume developed from a selection of papers presented at a sym
posium held at the University of Warwick, 5-8 November 1993, under
the auspices of UNESCO, entitled 'Emerging trends and major issues
in migration and ethnic relations in Western and Eastern Europe'.
Our warm thanks go to Serim Timur, from the Population Division
of the Sector of Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO for her valu
able collaboration in the organization of the joint UNESCO-University
of Warwick Symposium.
Our thanks also to Rose Goodwin for a masterly preparation of this
manuscript for publication.
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Notes on the Contributors
Jorg Alt, Jesuit Refugee Service, Leipzig, Germany
loan Aluas, (late Professor) Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Floya Anthias, Professor, University of Greenwich, London
Jochen Blaschke, Director, Berlin Institute for Social Research,
Germany
Giovanna Campani, Lecturer, University of Florence, Italy
Asbjffrn Eide, Director, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, Oslo,
Norway
Zdenka Jarabov3, Lecturer, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech
Republic
Daniele Joly, Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Research in
Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick
Cathie Lloyd, Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic
Relations, University of Warwick
Liviu Matei, Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Alan Phillips, Director, Minority Rights Group, London
John Rex, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Research in Ethnic
Relations, University of Warwick
Ana Vasquez, Research Fellow, CNRS - University of Paris V,
France
Angela Xavier de Brito, Research Fellow, CNRS - University of
Paris V, France
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