Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference: Whose House is This?

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Mobility, Migration Control and Geopolitical Imaginations....Pages 15-32
Europe in Peril....Pages 33-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
City Marketing in a Dual City: Discourses of Progress and Problems in post-Industrial Malmö....Pages 55-74
Debating the Rural and the Urban: Majority White Racialized Discourses on the Countryside and the City....Pages 75-93
Local Responses to Immigrants in the Midwestern United States....Pages 94-113
Belonging and Entitlement: Shifting Discourses of Difference in Multiethnic Neighbourhoods in the UK....Pages 114-135
Marginal Majority and Dishevelled Otherness: Debating Gypsyness on the Greek-Albanian Border....Pages 136-152
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The Power of Stereotypes and Enemy Images: The Case of the Chechen Wars....Pages 155-168
European Declarations on Minorities: The Kurdish Quest for Turkey’s Membership of the European Union....Pages 169-187
Local Media Representations of Islam before 9/11....Pages 188-205
Whose House is This? The Palestinian ‘Other’ and the Construction of Jewish Israeli Identity....Pages 206-225
The Making and Breaking of Difference: Concluding Thoughts....Pages 226-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-245