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1. Global Affirmative Action in Higher Education

   International Perspectives on Quotas, Reservations and Positive Discrimination

   Edited by Laura Dudley JENKINS, Michele S Moses

   Series: International Studies in Higher Education

   Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas. Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher education. How do different national and social contexts affect how affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified, and designed? Scholars from...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Identity and Identification in India

   Defining the Disadvantaged

   By Laura Dudley Jenkins

   Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them? Or do reservation policies reinforce the very categories they are meant to eradicate? Indian reservation policies on government jobs, legislative seats and university admissions for disadvantaged groups, like affirmative action policies...

   Published November 17th 2009 by Routledge