Immigration and Ethnic Conflict

✍ Scribed by Anthony H. Richmond (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Immigration and Ethnic Conflict reviews the experience of post-industrial countries that have experienced large-scale movements of population since the Second World War, creating ethnically diverse multicultural societies in a context of rapid economic, technological and social change. The book uses a critical theoretical approach which emphasises the dynamic nature of the structural changes which have taken place and the interdependence of economic, political, social and psychological factors. The results of extensive comparative studies of Britain, Canada and Australia are reviewed, with special attention to questions of immigrant adaptation, refugees, racism, unemployment, ethnic nationalism and social conflict. Traditional views of immigrant assimilation are rejected in favour of one which treats immigrants and ethnic minorities as the catalysts of change in a global polity, economy and society, simultaneously united and divided by satellite communications, nuclear terror and the world population explosion.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Ethnic Conflict and Post-Industrialism....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Structural Change and the Sociology of Migration....Pages 29-48
Socio-Cultural Adaptation and Conflict in Immigrant-Receiving Countries....Pages 49-66
Immigration and Unemployment in Canada and Australia....Pages 67-80
Third World Immigrants in Canada....Pages 81-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Environmental Conservation and Immigration: A New Racist Ideology?....Pages 95-106
Canadian Unemployment and the Threat to Multiculturalism....Pages 107-123
A Canadian Dilemma: Bilingualism, Multiculturalism or Racism?....Pages 125-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Ethnic Nationalism: Social Science Paradigms....Pages 141-165
Ethnic Nationalism and Post-Industrialism....Pages 167-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-218

✦ Subjects

Ethnicity Studies; Migration