Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steven vertovec

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  • THE URBAN CONTEXT
    STEVEN VERTOVEC / ALISDAIR ROGERS
    Addresses issues of current social and theoretical concern such as urban ethnic conflict, multiculturalism and immigration.How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? The essays in this volume argue that a powerful and related set of methodologies - including comparative research, the ethnography of situations such as dances and par...

    $1,160.00

  • MUSLIM EUROPEAN YOUTH
    STEVEN VERTOVEC
    First Published in 1998, this volume consists of contributors providing position of Muslim youth in a European context. Providing case studies from 5 European nations: Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The chapters in this book draw from various of anthropological and sociological theory to discuss this topic. Many contributors relating back to e...

    $980.00

  • CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPEAN CITIES
    KAREN KRAAL / STEVEN VERTOVEC
    There are relatively few books that provide comparative analysis of European cities in relation to immigrants and political participation. This fresh and insightful volume, from the same team that published Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in European Cities in 2001, analyzes how the presence of immigrants is perceived in politics, how this affects their status ...

    $1,200.00

  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF DIVERSITY STUDIES
    STEVEN VERTOVEC
    In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping discourses and policies of diversity include race, ethnicity, religion, gender, dis...

    $1,360.00

  • THE HINDU DIASPORA
    STEVEN VERTOVEC
    Hinduism outside the Indian subcontinent represents a contrasting and scattered community. From Britain to the Caribbean, diasporic Hindus have substantially reformed their beliefs and practices in accordance with their historical and social circumstances. In this theoretically innovative analysis Steven Vertovec examines:* the historical construction of the category 'Hinduism ...

    $1,600.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM
    STEVEN VERTOVEC
    The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of anthropological studies concerning these topics. This has particularly been...

    $1,320.00

  • TRANSNATIONALISM
    STEVEN VERTOVEC
    'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are f...

    $1,360.00