Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies

Michael Dunne is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sussex.

• Multiculturalism and citizenship in the liberal state: to share or not to share? The liberal treaty revisited; the concept of the nation and the question of nationalism - the traditional "nation state" versus a multicultural "commmunity state"; political and juridical approaches to justice toward groups. Citizenship and rights in multicultural Britain: when culture becomes race - religious identities and the nation; the political sociology of a multicultural society; "a union without cohesion" - religion national identity and the "British constitution" in the 19th Century. Citizenship and rights in multicultural Europe and America: multiculturalism and constitutional values in Germany; constitutional equality and the anti-discrimination principle in France - the French system in comparative perspective; America and multiculturalism; rights in a pluralist state - the case of Spain; ;legal rights, the new minorities and multiculturalism in contemporary Italy. Constitutional rights and constitutionalism in multicultural societies: minorities and protected minorities - constitutional models compared; constitutions and rights in Central and Eastern Europe; creating citizens for a constitutional democracy; postscript - multiculturalism in Europe and America.