Drawing on a wide range of examples, the selections included examine theories of nationalism and consider issues of ethnic integration and conflict in the USA, Canada, Quebec, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Catalonia among other countries and regions. The reader, however, does not confine itself to the study of nationalism. Many of the selections deal with the role of ethnicity in groups which are not nationalist at all but for which ethnicity is an important factor in the process of migration. The concept of ethnicity is therefore discussed both in relation to group rights in existing nation states and in relation to transnational communities in a globalized world.
Contributors include, Anthony D. Smith, John Rex, Eric Hobsbawm, James Clifford, Michael Keating, Franke Wilmer, Benedict Anderson, Will Kymlicka, Étienne Balibar and Michel Wieviorka.
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Introduction.
Part I: Ethnicity and Nationalism.
1. The Concept of Ethnicity.
2. Ethnicity and Nationalism.
3. Ethnicity and Violence.
4. Ethnicity and Self-determination.
Part II: Ethnicity and Self-determination.
5. Multicultural and Plural Societies.
6. Citizenship in Multicultural Societies.
7. Migration Theory, Ethnic Mobilization and Globalization.
8. Racism and Xenophobia.
Index.
