Scapegoats and Social Actors

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Danièle Joly

   Pages 1-12

3. Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Europe: Past, Present and Future

   • Asbjørn Eide

   Pages 13-34

4. Racism Within the General Crisis of Western Civilization

   • Jorg Alt

   Pages 35-54

5. New Racism in Germany

   • Jochen Blaschke

   Pages 55-86

6. The Romany Minority in the Czech Lands

   • Zdenka Jarabová

   Pages 87-100

7. Discrimination and Prejudice: Minorities in Romania

   • Ioan Aluas, Liviu Matei

   Pages 101-111

8. Minority Rights: Some New Intergovernmental Approaches in Europe

   • Alan Phillips

   Pages 112-136

9. The Political Sociology of a Multicultural Society

   • John Rex

   Pages 137-154

10. Antiracist Mobilization in France and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s1

    • Cathie Lloyd

    Pages 155-172

11. Connecting Ethnicity, ‘Race’, Gender and Class in Ethnic Relations Research

    • Floya Anthias

    Pages 173-191

12. Present Trends in Women’s Migration: The Emergence of Social Actors

    • Giovanna Campani

    Pages 192-217

13. Circe or Penelope? An Analysis of the Problematique of Latin-American Women in Exile

    • Angela Xavier de Brito, Ana Vasquez

    Pages 218-234

14. Back Matter

    Pages 235-241

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Dani� Joly brings together theoretical and empirical research on ethnic minorities in Eastern and Western Europe showing that their positions and the increased prejudices they encounter share many similarities throughout Europe. Whether racism and exclusion are related to exploitation and power relations, ideologies, or social status, they pervade interactions between the majority society and its ethnic minorities. The history of such ideologies, the upsurge of racism and xenophobia through the general crisis of Western Europe and the various 'arenas' of racism in Germany are respectively studied by Eide, Alt and Blaschke, while Jarabova and Matei/Aluas examine prejudice and racism in the Czech lands and Romania. What international legal and theoretical instruments there are to counteract these trends are explored by Phillips and Rex, while Lloyd focuses on the social practice of anti-racist movements. Finally, Anthias theorises the different categories of disadvantage for ethnic minority women experience. Still looking at women, Campani, Vasquez and Xavier de Brito demonstrate how those establish themselves as social actors in the reception country.

• gender
• migration
• Minorities
• women

• Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK

  Danièle Joly

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