In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion ‘multicultural’ or other references to cultural diversity in their policy vocabularies. More and more ...politicians and public intellectuals have criticized a perceived shift towards ‘too much diversity’. This volume goes beyond the conventional approaches to the topic offering a careful examination of not only the social conditions and political questions surrounding multiculturalism but also the recent emergence of a ‘backlash’ against multicultural initiatives, programmes and infrastructures.
Featuring case-study based contributions from leading experts throughout Europe and North America, this multidisciplinary work seeks to assess some of these key questions with reference to recent and current trends concerning multiculturalism, cultural diversity and integration in their respective countries, evaluating questions such as
Is there is a common ‘sceptical turn’ against cultural diversity or a ‘backlash against difference’ sweeping Europe?
How have public discourses impacted upon national and local diversity management and migration policies?
Are the discourses and policy shifts actually reflected in everyday practices within culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse settings?
The Multiculturalism Backlash provides new insights, informed reflections and comparative analyses concerning these significant processes surrounding politics, policy, public debates and the place of migrants and ethnic minorities within European societies today. Focusing on the practice and policy of multiculturalism from a comparative perspective this work will be of interest to scholars from a wide range of disciplines including migration, anthropology and sociology.
"In Western European politics, "the end of multiculturalism" has become a dogma. Here is finally a book that reopens the debate by distinguishing between political rhetoric, public opinion and public policies." - Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, Florence
"Orchestrated predictions about "the end of multiculturalism" are shown, in this alert but finely-tuned collection, as emanating from a panic choir without a common score. Judiciously choosing seven European and two Canadian contrasts, it shows this empirically and deepens it theoretically." - Gerd Baumann, University of Amsterdam
1. Introduction: assessing the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe Steven Vertovec and Susanne Wessendorf 2. The Rise and Fall of Multiculturalism? New Debates on Inclusion and Accommodation in Diverse Societies Will Kymlicka 3. British and Others: From ‘Race’ to ‘Faith’ Ralph Grillo 4. From Toleration to Repression:The Dutch backlash against multiculturalism Baukje Prins and Sawitri Saharso 5. ‘We’re not all Multiculturalists Yet’: France Swings Between Hard Integration and Soft Anti-discrimination Patrick Simon 6. Denmark versus Multiculturalism Ulf Hedetoft 7. Switzerland: A Multicultural Country Without Multicultural Policies? Gianni d’Amato 8. Germany: Integration Policy and Pluralism in a Self-conscious Country of Immigration Karen Schönwälder 9. Multicultural questions in Spain: the ambivalence of Spanish public opinion Ricard Zapata-Barrero 10. Multiculturalism: a Canadian Defence David Ley
Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen and Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Göttingen. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the Institute of Social andCultural Anthropology, University of Oxford and Director of the British Economic and Social ResearchCouncil’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
Susanne Wessendorf is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max-Planck Institute for the Study Of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. She has previously been an assistant lecturer At The Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland.
Trust us Hellstrom, Anders
2016., 20160101, 2016, 2016-01-15, 2015
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In Scandinavia, there is separation in the electorate between those who embrace diversity and those who wish for tighter bonds between people and nation. This book focuses on three nationalist ...populist parties in Scandinavia-the Sweden Democrats, the Progress Party in Norway, and the Danish People's Party. In order to affect domestic politics by addressing this conflict of diversity versus homogeneity, these parties must enter the national parliament while earning the nation's trust. Of the three, the Sweden Democrats have yet to earn the trust of the mainstream, leading to polarized and emotionally driven public debate that raises the question of national identity and what is understood as the common man.
Esta investigación ha sido desarrollada con el objetivo general de determinar un modelo de comunicación efectiva para la difusión de los Programas y Proyectos de Inversión Pública (PIP) del ...Departamento de Loreto, que ocupa la tercera parte del territorio del Perú, y, dadas sus caracterÃsticas geográficas, existe mucha influencia cultural de Colombia y Brasil. Desde la perspectiva metodológica, se basó en un enfoque cuantitativo, de nivel descriptivo, con un diseño de campo, no experimental, transversal, que se apoyó en encuestas aplicadas a los tenientes gobernadores de los poblados ubicados en las fronteras con Colombia y Brasil. Una vez desarrollado el trabajo de campo, se realizó el procesamiento de la información, generando asà el análisis descriptivo, la discusión de los resultados y la propuesta de modelo. En esencia, se llegó a la conclusión de que existen importantes limitaciones en el modelo actual de difusión de los PIP en el Departamento de Loreto, debilidades concernientes a todos los elementos de la comunicación: emisores dispersos y no preparados, receptores no caracterizados, canales desaprovechados, mensajes no codificados ni contextualizados, retroalimentación no estimulada. En vista de lo cual se diseña un Modelo de Comunicación Efectiva para la Difusión de los PIP (MCED-PIP) que plantea el desarrollo de una Sala Situacional de Comunicación Efectiva (SSCE -- PIP), que permita potenciar los roles de productores, consumidores y prosumidores de la información, mediante la diversificación de los canales y una especializada codificación del mensaje, en función del contexto: diversidad cultural, condiciones educativas, factores tecnológicos, entre otros. Palabras clave: Comunicación efectiva, difusión, programas y proyectos, inversión pública, modelos de comunicación. This investigation has been developed with the general objective of determining an effective communication model for the dissemination of Public Investment Programs and Projects (PIP) of the Department of Loreto, Peru. Theoretically, it was based on effective communication models: empirical - experimental, functionalist and network communication. From the methodological perspective, it was based on a quantitative methodological strategy, at a descriptive level, with a non-experimental, cross-sectional field design, which was supported by surveys applied to the lieutenant governors of the towns located on the borders with Colombia and Brazil. Once the field work was developed, the information was processed, thus generating the descriptive analysis, the discussion of the results and the proposed model. In essence, it was concluded that there are important limitations in the current model of PIP dissemination in the Department of Loreto, weaknesses concerning all elements of communication: dispersed and unprepared senders, uncharacterized receivers, wasted channels, uncoded and non-contextualized messages, unstimulated feedback. In view of which the Model of Effective Communication for the Diffusion of PIPs (MCE-D-PIP) is designed, which proposes the development of a Situational Room for Effective Communication (SSCE-PIP), which allows to enhance the roles of producers, consumers and prosumers of information, through the diversification of channels and a specialized coding of the message, depending on the context: cultural diversity, educational conditions, technological factors, among others. Keywords: Effective communication, dissemination, programs and projects, public investment, communication models.
Current literature from South Africa reflects some of the country’s vast cultural diversity and helps illustrate many of the challenges associated with struggles for equality, against the background ...of a painful and continuing history fraught with injustices. This article makes an argument for engaging with these literary texts in the secondary EFL classroom and proposes a reading of five contemporary texts featuring young adult protagonists. Taking a combined context-reader approach, it contends that such texts are not only conducive to rich cultural learning, but also to personal development at learners’ particular stages of self-formation. Involving themselves in some of South Africa’s historical, cultural, and moral complexities through literary texts offers adolescent learners a lens through which to view, reflect on, and potentially validate and consolidate some of their own multifaceted, possibly contradictory experiences, as selves-in-progress within their own diverse social contexts, and it provides language with which to do so.
When ways of life collide Sniderman, Paul M; Hagendoorn, Louk
2007., 20090202, 2009, 2007, 2007-01-01, 20070101
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In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial ...film about Muslim suppression of women. The Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects, broadcast media, and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream. In this arresting book, Paul Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn demonstrate that there are deep conflicts of values in the Netherlands. In the eyes of the Dutch, for example, Muslims oppress women, treating them as inferior to men. In the eyes of Muslim immigrants, Western Europeans deny women the respect they deserve. Western Europe has become a cultural conflict zone. Two ways of life are colliding.
•We use gender-innovation data for 472 multinational corporations operating in 21 emerging economies.•We use multi-stage theoretical framework–institutional factors, Hofstede national cultural ...dimensions & firm level factors.•Our study is the first to empirically examine the effect of gender diversity on innovation for emerging economies.•National culture & country-level institutional quality has mediating influence on boardroom gender diversity & innovation.
This paper contributes to burgeoning research concerning the relationship between boardroom gender diversity and corporate innovation. The paper deploys a multi-theoretical framework comprising insights from the upper echelons, resource-dependency, and institutional theories, and the Hofstede's cultural dimensions framework. We test a panel dataset for 472 multinationals in 21 emerging economies, covering nine years (2009–2018). Our findings reveal that gender diversity is positively associated with corporate innovation. We also find that local factors such as national norms, cultural values, and country-level institutional quality influence boardroom gender diversity, level of investment in research and development (R&D), and corporate innovation. The paper concludes by providing policy and managerial recommendations on how to promote firm innovation within emerging markets contexts.
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P033 Moving the Needle on Speaker Diversity at AIBD Goldowsky, Alexander; Singh, Roshni; Charabaty, Aline ...
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Diversity of invited speakers at academic conferences is a topic of increased focus in recent years. While there have been efforts to improve speaker diversity, an evaluation of this in the IBD field ...has not been undertaken to date. We aimed to address gaps in knowledge of speaker gender, race, and experience at a major annual IBD conference over time.
AIBD program brochures from 2014 to 2020 were reviewed by two providers to evaluate speaker demographic information including gender, race, topic of discussion, institutional affiliation, and, for those trained in gastroenterology, years post-fellowship. In addition, the proportion of all-male panels was calculated. As a comparator, the proportion of female speakers and all-male panels was then compared to a control conference run by the same CME organization (Personalized Therapies in Thoracic Oncology).
The percentage of female speakers of any specialty at AIBD increased from 25% in 2016 to 39% in 2020. Female adult gastroenterologist speakers increased from 12% in 2015 to 27% in 2020. The percentage of all gastroenterologists that are female in the US is 19%. All-male panels also decreased from an average of 47% in 2014-2017, to 11% in 2018-2020. As a comparator, 47% of speakers at the control conference were female and there were no all-male panels in 2020. For race, in any given year an average of 13% of speakers were Asian, 5% Hispanic/Latinx, and 1% Black. This remained static over time. The percentage of Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, and Black gastroenterologists in the US is 29%, 5%, and 6%, respectively. Average years of experience of speakers at AIBD appeared relatively static, with a mean of 15 years since fellowship training per speaker.
From 2014-2020, the proportion of female speakers at AIBD has increased to over one third in main programming. There remains room for improvement, particularly in increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of speakers and inviting more gastroenterologists in the early stages of their careers.
Geoffrey Brahm Levey plausibly describes how a group of scholars who he calls the ‘Bristol School of Multiculturalism’ (BSM) differ from scholars who are often called Liberal Multiculturalists (LMs). ...We expand Levey’s analysis by showing what in the history of the BSM’s thought made the liberalism and the multiculturalism of LMs unconvincing for BSM scholars. Hence, we show how certain thinkers influenced BSM scholars in ways that made them unwilling to offer liberal theories and how BSM scholars began their work with multi-culturalist ideas that differ from the multiculturalist ideas of LMs.
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Co-published with While there is wide consensus in higher education that global learning is essential for all students' success, there are few models of how to achieve this goal. The authors of this ...book, all of whom are from one of the nation's largest and most diverse research universities, provide such a model and, in doing so, offer readers a broad definition of global learning that both encompasses a wide variety of modes and experiences-in-person, online, and in co-curricular activities at home and abroad-and engages all students on campus. They provide a replicable set of strategies that embed global learning throughout the curriculum and facilitate high quality, high-impact global learning for all students.The approach this book describes is based upon three principles: that global learning is a process to be experienced, not a thing to be produced; that it requires all students' participation-particularly the underrepresented-and cannot succeed if reserved for a select few; and that global learning involves more than mastery of a particular body of knowledge. The authors conceptualize global learning as the process of diverse people collaboratively analyzing and addressing complex problems that transcend borders of all kinds. They demonstrate how institutions can enable all students to determine relationships among diverse perspectives on problems and develop equitable, sustainable solutions for the world's interconnected human and natural communities. What's more, they describe how a leadership process-collective impact-can enable all stakeholders across departments and disciplines to align and integrate universal global learning throughout the institution and achieve the aims of inclusive excellence.Providing examples of practice, this book:
Offers a model to make global learning universal;
Provides a definition of global learning that incorporates diversity, collaboration, and problem solving as essential components;
Describes effective leadership
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