Ethnic Diversity in Europe: Challenges to the Nation State

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Universidad de Deusto, HumanitarianNet, 2000, 152 pp.This book brings together scholars from a number of European countries who take stock of current policies for the integration and accommodation of both immigrant and indigenous minorities in their respective countries - Turkey, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany. Also included are chapters on the significance of space and 'belonging' in the process of 'self-identification', on models of plural and multicultural societies and on the role of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in conflict resolution and peace-building in the Former YugoslaviaContents: Turkey's Kurdish problem from an international legal perspective.Plurality, conflict and the search for solution: the Basque case.Plurality and nationalist conflict in the Basque country.Nothern Ireland: the Belfast Agreement as a model for conflict resolution?Multiculturalism and cities in Europe: Nurnberg, Germany.Immigrants in the Netherlands, past and present.Mazara del Vallo: the most Arab city in Italy.From place to place: consequences of displacement for forced migrants.Multiculturalism and pluralist societies: concepts and models.Developing security and democracy amongst European cultures in conflict.