Diversity in the European Union [Paperback]

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.PART I: INTRODUCTION Understanding Diversity in the European Integration Project; M.Thiel ?& E.Pr?gl 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.Pr?gl

This collection of articles on diversity in the European Union represents solid scholarship and devotes special attention to the actual polsP