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Ethnic politics

In this timely book Milton J. Esman surveys a recurrent and seemingly intractable factor in the politics of nations: ethnicity. As the author notes, virtually no contemporary nation-state is ethnically homogeneous. Most address the political effects...
Print Book, English, 1994
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1994
277 pages ; 24 cm
9780801430107, 9780801482311, 0801430100, 0801482313
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Ethnic solidarity as a political force: the scope of the inquiry
A common conceptual framework
Malaysia: native sons and immigrants
South Africa: multiple cleavages
Israelis and Palestinians: whose land?
Canada-Quebec: "two nations warring in the bosom of a single state"
International migration and labor diasporas
The stakes in ethnic conflict
Outcomes and prospects