Multiculturalism, Social Cohesion and Immigration

Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. John Solomos is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Warwick, UK.

• 1. Introduction 2. Post-race, post politics: the paradoxical rise of culture after multiculturalism 3. Ethnic diversity, segregation, and the social cohesion of neighbourhoods in London 4. Cricket, drinking and exclusion of British Pakistani Muslims? 5. Reconciling the contact and threat hypotheses: does ethnic diversity strengthen or weaken community inter-ethnic relations? 6. Changing claims in context: national identity revisited 7. Whiteness in Scotland: shame, belonging and diversity management in a Glasgow workplace 8. Bringing class back in: class consciousness and solidarity among Chinese migrant workers in Italy and the UK 9. Immigrant narratives and nation-building in a stateless nation: the case of Italians in post-devolution Wales 10. Developing an independent anti-racist model for asylum rights organising in England

'The book makes a novel contribution to the ethnic and racial studies. Moreover, it also discloses the need for more theoretical and empirical analysis about immigration both in the UK and in the asylum-accepting countries in the post-Arab Spring era. I advise the book scholars, graduate students and researchers who are interested in ethnicity, immigration and racism.'— Ramazan Erdağ, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey , Ethnic and Racial Studies