Exploring the most topical issues around migration and integration in relation to Britain, this book, now in paperback, examines people smuggling and the elite labour migration that is becoming a feature of Britain. It also examines the concepts of social capital, social cohesion and Britishness that are being used to critique multiculturalism.
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CONTRIBUTORS: T. Modood, J. Salt
EAN: 9780230296879
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 4777 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-03-30
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GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
United Kingdom, Great Britain, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Civics and citizenship
"The major strength of this volume is its wide-ranging use of quantitative and qualitative data and engagement with the confluent global processes defining the ethnic fabric of Britain's academic and employment sectors...the book can readily be recommended as an important contribution on ethnicity in Britain." - Political Studies
ALI AHMAD Research Assistant, Migration Research Unit, University College London, UK CLAIRE DWYER Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Migration Unit, Department of Geography, University College London, UKSTEVE FENTON Professor of Sociology, Bristol University, UK RON JOHNSTON Professor of Geography, University of Bristol, UK NABIL KHATTAB Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel KHALID KOSER Lecturer in Human Geography at University College London, UK ROBIN MANN Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK TARIQ MODOOD Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol, UK JOHN SALT Emeritus Professor and Director of the Migration Research Unit, University College London, UK GURCHATHEN SANGHERA Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK BINDI SHAH Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK IBRAHIM SIRKECI Reader in Demography, Department of Marketing, Strategy & Law, European Business School London, UK CLAIRE SMETHERHAM Honorary Fellow, University of Bristol, UKSURUCHI THAPAR-BJÖRKERT Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden VARUN UBEROI Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK PETER WOOD Former Lecturer, Department of Geography, University College London, UK
