Multiculturalism In The British Commonwealth

Author : Richard T. Ashcroft,Mark Bevir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520971103

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Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth by Richard T. Ashcroft,Mark Bevir Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic governance gained widespread acceptance after World War II, but in recent years this consensus has been fractured. Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth examines cultural diversity across the postwar Commonwealth, situating modern multiculturalism in its national, international, and historical contexts. Bringing together practitioners from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the legal, political, and philosophical issues involved, these essays address common questions: What is postwar multiculturalism? Why did it come about? How have social actors responded to it? In addition to chapters on Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, this volume also covers India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, and Trinidad, tracing the historical roots of contemporary dilemmas back to the intertwined legacies of imperialism and liberalism. In so doing it demonstrates that multiculturalism has implications that stretch far beyond its current formulations in public and academic discourse.

Author : Julian Göhren
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656594178

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The History of Multiculturalism and Immigration in the United Kingdom and Right-Wing Reactions by Julian Göhren Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Teaching Multicultural Britain, language: English, abstract: Ein kurzer Überblick über das Thema Einwanderung in das Vereinigte Königreich ab dem 19. Jahrhundert. Die Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich u.a. mit den vielfältigen Gründen für die Einwanderung und wie die politische Rechte auf den gesellschaftlichen Wandel reagierte. Dazu wird das Thema als Inhalt einer Unterrichtsreihe betrachtet.

Author : Richard T. Ashcroft,Mark Bevir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429806544

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Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain by Richard T. Ashcroft,Mark Bevir Pdf

Since 1945 the United Kingdom has changed from a polity that was overwhelmingly white, ethnically British, and Christian to one constituted by creeds, cultures, and communities drawn from all over the globe. The term ‘multiculturalism’ evokes these demographic changes, the policies and laws that arose as a result, and connected public debates. Political and public support for multiculturalism has been called into question in the new millennium, with British multiculturalism—and Britain itself—currently in a state of flux. This volume examines the policy, law, and political theory of multiculturalism in the British context, exploring how they inform each other. It covers topics such as national identity, immigration, integration, the welfare state, gender, freedom of religion, and human rights. It provides a deeper understanding of contemporary British multiculturalism in its various aspects, inexorably leading back to fundamental questions regarding the structure and purpose of the British polity. It also explores the connections between multiculturalism and current events, including Brexit, renewed calls for Scottish independence, and the broader rise of populism in the West. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, to which the editors have added a new concluding chapter.

Author : J. A. Cloake,M. R. Tudor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0199134243

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Multicultural Britain by J. A. Cloake,M. R. Tudor Pdf

This book presents a lively and engaging picture of multicultural Britain in the 20th century. A wide range of questions and activities encourage students to think about the positive aspects as well as the difficulties of living in a multicultural community. This book is particularly suitable for AQA History specifications.

Author : Don McKinnon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : 1871163129

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Multilateralism and Multiculturalism by Don McKinnon Pdf

Author : Roger Levy,Dean Smart
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : 9780748764778

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Multicultural Britain by Roger Levy,Dean Smart Pdf

This photocopiable resource offers a wealth of material that aims to demonstrate that Great Britain and Ireland have been multicultural environments since early times.

Author : G. Schaffer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230292976

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The Vision of a Nation by G. Schaffer Pdf

Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age' of British television, the book focuses on the 1960s and 1970s and argues that the makers of television worked tirelessly to shape multiculturalism and undermine racist extremism.

Author : Stanley Bill,Simon Lewis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822990192

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Multicultural Commonwealth by Stanley Bill,Simon Lewis Pdf

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of contention between those with different understandings of its history. Multicultural Commonwealth brings together the expertise of world-renowned scholars in a range of disciplines to present perspectives on both the Commonwealth’s historical diversity and the memory of this diversity. With cutting-edge research on the intermeshed histories and memories of different ethnic and religious groups of the Commonwealth, this volume asks how various contemporary conceptions of multiculturalism can be applied to the region through a critical lens that also seeks to understand the past on its own terms.

Author : Rita Chin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691192772

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The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe by Rita Chin Pdf

"From the influx of immigrants in the 1950s to contemporary worries about refugees and terrorism, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe examines the historical development of multiculturalism on the Continent. Rita Chin argues that there were few efforts to institute state-sponsored policies of multiculturalism, and those that emerged were pronounced failures virtually from their inception. She shows that today's crisis of support for cultural pluralism isn't new but actually has its roots in the 1980s. Chin looks at the touchstones of European multiculturalism, from the urgent need for laborers after World War II to the public furor over the publication of The Satanic Verses and the question of French girls wearing headscarves to school. While many Muslim immigrants had lived in Europe for decades, in the 1980s they came to be defined by their religion and the public's preoccupation with gender relations. Acceptance of sexual equality became the critical gauge of Muslims' compatibility with Western values. The convergence of left and right around the defense of such personal freedoms against a putatively illiberal Islam has threatened to undermine commitment to pluralism as a core ideal. Chin contends that renouncing the principles of diversity brings social costs, particularly for the left, and she considers how Europe might construct an effective political engagement with its varied population."--Publisher web site

Author : Kent Fedorowich,Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : British
ISBN : 1526106701

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Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World by Kent Fedorowich,Andrew S. Thompson Pdf

This groundbreaking study opens up new avenues of research into the history of imperial mobility and migration, while also engaging with the contemporary debates generated by immigration, globalisation and transnationalism. The chief aim of the volume is to introduce the reader to new andemerging research in the broad field of "imperial migration", and, in so doing, to show how this 'new' migration scholarship is helping to deepen and enrich our understanding of the concept of a British World.Based upon far-reaching primary, secondary and oral-based research in Australia, Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States and Zambia, the volume provides a more integrated and comparative approach to histories of migration and mobility within a British imperial world. The key focal point isthe analysis of different types of imperial migration, its shifting patterns and processes, its socio-economic bases, and the transfer of ideas, identities, racial constructs and investment capital along the various networks established by British migrants throughout the empire, both formal andinformal.The essays also explore the tensions between the national and imperial, and the transnational and global. In doing so, they reflect on notions of "Britishness" as contested forms of identity. What emerges is a subtle yet far-reaching investigation of competing forms of empire and nation-building.This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in British imperial and migration history. It also offers important insights for students interested in the comparative dynamics and overlapping vectors of global, transnational and British World history.

Author : Michael Clyne,James Jupp
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921862151

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Multiculturalism and Integration by Michael Clyne,James Jupp Pdf

Multiculturalism has been the official policy of all Australian governments (Commonwealth and State) since the 1970s. It has recently been criticised, both in Australia and elsewhere. Integration has been suggested as a better term and policy. Critics suggest it is a reversion to assimilation. However integration has not been rigorously defined and may simply be another form of multiculturalism, which the authors believe to have been vital in sustaining social harmony.

Author : Wendy Webster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191054600

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Mixing It by Wendy Webster Pdf

During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more diverse than it had ever been before. Through diaries, letters, and interviews, Mixing It tells of ordinary lives pushed to extraordinary lengths. Among the stories featured are those of Zbigniew Siemaszko - deported by the Soviet Union, fleeing Kazakhstan on a horse-drawn sleigh, and eventually joining the Polish army in Scotland via Iran, Iraq, and South Africa - and 'Johnny' Pohe - the first Maori pilot to serve in the RAF, who was captured, and eventually murdered by the Gestapo for his part in the 'Great Escape'. This is the first book to look at the big picture of large-scale movements to Britain and the rich variety of relations between different groups. When the war ended, awareness of the diversity of Britain's wartime population was lost and has played little part in public memories of the war. Mixing It recovers this forgotten history. It illuminates the place of the Second World War in the making of multinational, multiethnic Britain and resonates with current debates on immigration.

Author : Jamila Gavin,Ossie Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN : 0749722010

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The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories by Jamila Gavin,Ossie Murray Pdf

Author : Mark Bevir,Matt Beech
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031172816

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Interpreting Brexit by Mark Bevir,Matt Beech Pdf

This volume examines the impact of Brexit on political traditions such as nationalism, liberalism and conservatism, cosmopolitanism and decentralization. Bringing together scholars of British Politics, the chapters focus on the following topics: Brexit and the myth of British National identity since World War II; the evolution of discourses surrounding Brexit and the broader shifts in the character of British liberal and conservative traditions; how the phenomenon of Brexit has decentered the Labour Party’s ideational tradition; the expression of beliefs about Brexit and British foreign policy; the ‘identity effects’ of Brexit on unionism and nationalism in Northern Ireland; whether the UK require a more decentred local government at a community level in order for people to feel both represented, and able to participate.

Author : Alberto Spektorowski,Daphna Elfersy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472132164

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From Multiculturalism to Democratic Discrimination by Alberto Spektorowski,Daphna Elfersy Pdf

The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash. Questions of what to do about Muslim immigration, how to deal with burqas, how to deal with gender politics, have all been influenced by western democracies’ grappling with ideas of inclusion and most recently, exclusion. This book examines those forces and ultimately sees, not an unbridgeable gap, but a future in which Islam and European democracies are compatible, rich, and evolving.