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What Should Be Europe's Identity?

The Trials of Multiculturalism

by Riva Kastoryano · January 22, 2009

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This book looks at the role of multiculturalism in the complex construction of the European Union, acknowledging the tension of creating a new political space for identities that are simultaneously national, regional, linguistic, and religious, and yet strive to encompass a political and geographic whole. The author investigates the difficulty of conjugating the complex, pluralistic sense of belonging that individuals and groups in the EU experience in efforts to form a cohesive political identity, and one that is expressly European.

Human rightsMulticulturalismCultural pluralismNationalism, europeNational characteristicsSOCIAL SCIENCEAnthropologyCulturalDiscrimination & Race RelationsMinority Studies