Combating Racial Discrimination: Affirmative Action As a Model for Europe - Couverture rigide

 
9781859733080: Combating Racial Discrimination: Affirmative Action As a Model for Europe
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ISBN 10 : 1859733085 ISBN 13 : 9781859733080
Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

In Europe as well as in other parts of the world, xenophobia and racism are among the unsolved problems of the ending 20th century. Globalization, mass migration and unemployment as well as the need to invent new supra- or crossnational identities require new political answers concerning the problems of inclusion and exclusion.In the United States and in Canada, 'affirmative action' programmes are among those policies which are intended to redress the injustice of discrimination based primarily on race, ethnicity, sex, but also on national origin, religion, or disability.This timely book is the first to present an overview of these hotly debated questions and the anti-discrimination policies in different countries. Experts from the United States, Canada and Europe examine the historical, institutional, judicial and sociological conditions of affirmative action and look at shifting concepts of racism, equality, integration and assimilation. They address the vital questions of whether policies originally created to increase opportunities for African Americans can be applied in Europe; whether the primary goal of 'affirmative action' should be to correct injustice or to safeguard diversity; and whether the democratic ideal of individual equality is at odds with what many perceive as preferential treatment. Moral success but political failure? Compensatory justice or reverse discrimination? This important book evaluates more than thirty years of affirmative action and helps to develop new instruments to deal with the roots and the effects of discrimination.

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À propos des auteurs

Edited by Erna Appelt, University of Innsbruck and Monika Jarosch, Independent Researcher.

Edited by Monika Jarosch, Independent Researcher.

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Éditeur
Berg Publishers
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1859733085
ISBN 13 
9781859733080
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Éditeur
Appelt Erna, Jarosch Monika
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