Diversity in the European Union

by Elisabeth Prügl, Markus Thiel

Overview

This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European Union, and provides a tapestry of cases that illustrate minority politics and activism, contestations over identity and difference, and the construction of new meanings of European citizenship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349381975
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/13/2010
Edition description:	1st ed. 2009
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ELISABETH PRÜGL is Professor of Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, USA.

MARKUS THIEL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, USA.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION Understanding Diversity in the European Integration Project; M.Thiel  & E.Prügl The European Union's Policies to Safeguard and Promote Diversity; J.Swiebel PART II: MIGRANTS AND MUSLIMS The Success and Failure of Integration Policy in France and Britain; M.Schain Mainstreaming Third Country National Integration; E.Ucarer Migrant Women: Negotiating Complex Social Inequalities in the Frameworks of Gender Mainstreaming, Managing Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination; H.Schwenken New Muslim Pluralism and Secular Democracy in Turkey and the EU; M.Somer  & G.Tol PART III: SEXUAL MINORITIES AND GENDER Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Resisting Gay Rights in Poland and Latvia; C.O'Dwyer  & K.Schwartz 'LGBT' go Luxembourg: On the Stance of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Rights before the European Court of Justice; G.von Toggenburg Intersectionality, Inequality and EU Law; A.Elman Intersectional Discrimination: Difficulties in the Implementation of a European Norm; S.Vasiljevic PART IV: NATIONAL AND CULTURAL MINORITIES Let Freedom Reign: The Impress of EU Integration on Minority Survival; C.Williams European Integration and Ethnic Mobilization in Newly Admitted Countries: The Case of the Hungarian Minority in Romania; L.Bucsa European Norms, Local Interpretations: Minority Rights Issues and Related Discourses in Lithuania after EU Expansion; D.Budryte  & V.Pilinkaite-Sotirovic Conclusion: Theorizing Diversity in the European Union; M.Thiel  & E.Prügl

Editorial Reviews

"This collection of articles on diversity in the European Union represents solid scholarship and devotes special attention to the actual policies and legal practices with respect to various forms of diversity in the EU. The volume is an excellent primer on the subject." - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor, Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

"By offering theoretically informed empirical research on diversity, this volume successfully targets a gap in the governance debates about European integration. As the editors point out, in these debates diversity is ironically framed both as threatened and as a threat. The book s contributors shed light on the irony by situating EU cases within the wider political theory literature. They study diversity from the three perspectives of multi-level politics and activism, identity politics, and citizenship. By bringing together an international group of scholars, some of whom carry a most distinguished trajectory in studying diversity, Prügl and Thiel have succeeded in grounding diversity theory empirically. The result is certainly relevant for students of diversity in Europe and beyond. For European integration studies this book means moving a remarkable step further towards linking political theory and empirical research." - Antje Wiener, University of Hamburg

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