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Cultural diversity
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ISBN: 1617613916 9781617613913 9781608762033 1608762033 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Nova Science Publishers


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U.S. Congressional membership diversity
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ISBN: 1617283363 9781617283369 9781617281075 1617281077 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York


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Significant difference? A comparative analysis of multicultural policies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands
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ISBN: 128325994X 9786613259943 9048521505 9789048521500 6613259942 9781283259941 9789052603858 9052603855 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam

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Violent incidents that took place in 2004 and 2005 in the Netherlands and the UK respectively prompted people to claim that multiculturalism had failed. This claim requires an assessment of the effect of the policies that were drafted based on this political philosophy. In this study, the author analyses two sets of policies developed from multiculturalism: policies of anti-discrimination of minorities and their labour market participation. The effect of these policies is assessed by studying the policy objectives and their results. Based on this review, the author concludes that while there is still much to achieve in the fields of anti-discrimination and labour market participation, multiculturalism did not fail in the UK. On the contrary, it created a positive public perception of diversity and a high participation of minorities in the labour market. This contrasts with results achieved in the Netherlands where policies have fluctuated in such a way that the public attitude towards diversity is ambivalent and the participation of minorities in the labour market is much lower than that of their native counterpart.


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Beyond a border : the causes and consequences of contemporary immigration
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ISBN: 1483349403 1452235872 145222269X 9781452222691 9781483349404 9781412924955 1412924952 9781452235875 Year: 2010 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. Pine Forge Press, an imprint of Sage Publications, Inc.


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Delivering services in multicultural societies
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ISBN: 1282462555 9786612462559 0821380842 0821380494 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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The last twenty years has witnessed a growing recognition of the importance of considering cultural and ethnic diversity in the design and implementation of development programs. The increasing cultural diversity of societies throughout the world and the important role of culture in identity formation in a global society create a major challenge for national and local governments in ensuring social cohesion and inclusion. This book reviews recent approaches in taking into account cultural diversity in delivery of basic services. It first discusses the idea that supporting cultural diversity ca


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Grenze(n)loos vertrouwen
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ISBN: 9789023246985 Year: 2010 Publisher: Assen Van Gorcum

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"Hoe kunnen we een samenleving creëren waarin we culturele verschillen met vertrouwen tegemoet treden? Hoe kunnen we reageren op feitelijke problemen rond diversiteit, zonder dat dat polariserend werkt? Hoe kunnen we zorgen voor een samenleving waarin verschillen niet alleen gerespecteerd worden, maar waarin we ook in staat zijn verschillen te waarderen en actief te benutten?" In dit boek geven zeven prominente Nederlanders, te weten Ruud Lubbers, Naema Tahir, Jacques Wallage, Halleh Ghorashi, Nebahat Albayrak, Hans Dijkstal, en Nora Asrami antwoord op deze vragen. Culturele identiteit heeft ook een belangrijke rol gespeeld in hun eigen leven. In de interviews vertellen zij ook hun persoonlijke verhaal.


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Diversity and Complexity
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ISBN: 1283163683 9786613163684 1400835143 9781400835140 9780691137674 0691137676 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity makes fundamental contributions to system performance. Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. He explains how diversity underpins system level robustness, allowing for multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation. Page looks at the different kinds of diversity--variations within and across types, and distinct community compositions and interaction structures--and covers the evolution of diversity within complex systems and the factors that determine the amount of maintained diversity within a system. Provides a concise and accessible introduction Shows how diversity underpins robustness and fuels tipping points Covers all types of diversity The essential primer on diversity in complex adaptive systems


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Multicultiphobia
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ISBN: 1442687045 9781442687042 9781442641464 9781442610682 1442698934 Year: 2010 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press

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Multicultiphobia perceptively tackles all of these questions by means of a sophisticated analysis that encourages a deeper understanding of the issues at the heart of multiculturalism.


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Perception, meaning & identity
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ISBN: 1848880421 9004403051 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press,


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Multicultural dialogue : dilemmas, paradoxes, conflicts
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ISBN: 1282662384 9786612662386 1845458206 1845456661 0857456482 0857456490 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managing cultural differences through planned pluralism. This book explores the dilemmas, paradoxes, and conflicts that emerge when differences are managed within this conceptual framework. After a critical investigation of the perceived logic of identity, indicative of Western nation-states and at the root of

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