Challenging immigration and ethnic relations politics : comparative European perspectives / edited by Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Migration and ethnic relations as a field of political contention: an opportunity structure approach / Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham -- Multiculturalism and political integration in Europe / John Rex -- Citizenship, multiculturalism and the politics of identity: contemporary dilemmas and policy agendas / John Solomos and Liza K. Shuster -- The dynamics of integration policies: a multidimensional model / Han Entzinger -- Legal repression of extreme-right parties and racial discrimination / Meindert Fennema -- Mobilization of culture and the reform of citizenship law: Germany and the United States / Christian Joppke -- Conflict, consensus, and policy outcomes: immigration and integration in Germany and the Netherlands / Dietrich Thränhardt -- Challenging the liberal nation-state? Postnationalism, multiculturalism, and the collective claims-making of migrants and ethnic minorities in Britain and Germany / Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham -- Reaping what they sow: institutions and immigrant political participation in Western Europe / Patrick Ireland -- Ethnic minorities, cities, and institutions: a comparison of the modes of management of ethnic diversity of a French and a British city / Romain Garbaye -- Major anti-minority riots and national legislative campaigns against immigrants in Britain and Germany / Roger Karapin -- Ethnocentric party mobilization in Europe: the importance of the three-dimensional approach / Roger Eatwell -- Xenophobic violence and ethnic conflict at the local level: lessons from the Scandinavian experience / Tore Björgo -- Anti-racist responses to European integration / Cathie Lloyd -- Immigration and European integration: new opportunities for transnational mobilization? / Adrian Favell and Andrew Geddes.s.