Challenging Racism in Britain and Germany

ZIG LAYTON-HENRY is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick and former Director of the ESRC Centre of Research in Ethnic Relations. He is author of The Politics of Immigration (Macmillan, 1992) and editor of The Political Rights of Migrant Workers in Western Europe (Sage, 1990). His main research interests include citizenship, immigration policy and transnational communities. - CZARINA WILPERT is a native of Los Angeles, California and a social scientist at the Berlin University of Technology. Her research addresses multiple aspects of international migration, especially questions relating to the future of the descendants of migrants and the social organisation of migrants from Turkey in Germany. Her most recent work addresses issues of immigrants in the informal labour market and the meanings attached to citizenship and nationality. Dr Wilpert is a core member of the TSER Research Network of the European Community on Working on the Fringes: Immigrant Business, Economic Integration and Informal Practices.

• Preface Notes on the Contributors PART I: CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALITY Models of Citizenship and Rules of Naturalization; R.Bauböck The German Concept of Citizenship and Nationality; D.Oberndörfter Citizenship and Nationality in Britain; Z.Layton-Henry PART II: RACISM AND RACIAL INEQUALITY Racism and Inequality: The British Case in a European Context; M.Cross Dealing with Racial Harassment: The Development of Legal Strategies; M.Prescod Anti-Semitism in a United Germany; W.Bergmann The Racist Portrayal of Gypsies in the Medialrina Bohn; F.Hamberger & K.Rock The Mobilization of the Extreme Right in Germany; W.Kühnel PART III: Law and Policy on Race in the United Kingdom; C.Munro Enforcing Anti-Discrimination Law in Britain: Here There be Monsters; M.MacEwan Changing Employers' Practices: From Exclusion to Inclusion; M.Coussey Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Germany: From Abstinence to Activism? The Influence of the New EC Equal Treatment Directive on Future Legislation; R.Nickel Racism, Discrimination, Citizenship and the Need for Anti-Discrimination Legislation in Germany; C.Wilpert Afterword Index

'This edited collection is a welcome contribution to the literature on antiracist policymaking...[A] good collection that is worth owning, especially if you are interested in issues of racism in Britain, Germany or in a comparative context.' - Erik Bleich, e-Extreme(electronic newsletter of European Consortium for Political Research)