Ethnic Identity Books

New and Published Books

1. Islam and China's Hong Kong

   Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road

   By Wai-Yip Ho

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. What is Asia to Us? (Routledge Revivals)

   Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today

   By Milan Hauner

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This book, first published in 1990, considers the uneasy relationship between Russia and Soviet Central Asia. Chapters examine both the significance of Asia to the Russian mind and the place that Asia has occupied in Russian geopolitical thinking in the last hundred years, showing that outbreaks of...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. National Myths

   Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

   Edited by Gérard Bouchard

   National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who...

   Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Changing Gay Male Identities

   By Andrew Cooper

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a context of globalisation, mass communication and technological advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing world, sociologists have argued that identities...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity

   The Challenge of Enumeration

   Edited by Patrick Simon, Victor Piché

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate. Every country had been affected by what is commonly known as cultural pluralism, as a result of conflicts interpreted from an ethnic perspective, for instance, in the Balkans and central Africa; nationalist...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
6. Defending Democracy and Securing Diversity

   Edited by Christian Leuprecht

   Old sergeants say, "we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!" But are they right? The special mandate with which defence and security organizations are tasked imposes unique constraints with respect to the accommodation of diversity which differs from those faced by any other public or...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies

   Canada, Taiwan, and the United States

   Edited by Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Nancy Denton

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora

   The Changing Landscape of Qiaoxiang

   By Yow Cheun Hoe

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China’s rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world. Ethnic Chinese have done very well economically, and the role of the Chinese Diaspora in China’s economic success...

   Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Chih-yu Shih, Yu-Wen Chen

   Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic,...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Gender, Migration and the Media

    Edited by Myria Georgiou

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge