Multicultural Challenges and Sustainable Democracy in Europe and East Asia

This collection examines the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in 12 countries of Europe and East Asia. Contributors draw out the differences between European and East Asian approaches to universalizing locality and localizing global norms regarding human rights and democratic individuality.

Autorentext

Nigel Copsey, Teesside University, UK Frank Delmartino, Leuven University, Belgium James Farrer, Sophia University, Japan Jung-Mee Hwang, Korea University, Republic of Korea Julian C.H. Lee, RMIT University, Australia Federico Oliveri, University of Pisa, Italy Alexandra Poli, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France Pitch Pongsawat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Maria Stoicheva, Sofia University, Burgaria Haci Halil Uslucan, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany Kunihiko Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan

Klappentext

This collection compares the current stage of multicultural challenges and their influence on democracy in twelve countries of Europe and East Asia. While East Asia has recently experienced sociocultural cleavages and their challenges to democracy, Europe has faced increasing discontent over multiculturalism and has tried to seek alternative routes of social integration to sustain democracy. In other words, both continents have now faced the common problem of how to solve sociocultural cleavages and how to sustain democracy through overcoming multicultural challenges. Contributors examine twelve individual cases in the two continents and compare the divergence and convergence of multicultural practices, exploring different ways of achieving the shared values of democracy in a multicultural diversity. This book ultimately clarifies the differences between Europe and East Asia in their approaches to universalizing locality and localizing global norms regarding human rights and democratic individuality in the context of multicultural challenges.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Universalization of Locality and Localization of a Global Norms in Europe and East Asia; Nam-Kook Kim 1. Multicultural Dreaming: Democracy and Multiculturalism in the 'Chinese Dream'; James Farrer 2. The Migrant Workers' Movement in the Democratic Consolidation of Korea; Nam-Kook Kim 3. Property Law Policy for the Indigenous Ainu People and the Unresolved Issue of Reparations in Japan; Kunihiko Yoshida 4. Multiculturalism and Malaysia's (Semi-)Democracy: Movements for Electoral Reform in an Evolving Ethnopolitical Landscape; Julian C.H. Lee 5. Socio-cultural Cleavages and Red-Yellow Shirt Conflicts in Thailand's Politics: A Critical Multiculturalism View; Pitch Pongsawat 6. Local Citizenship and Policy Agenda for 'Foreign Residents' in East Asia; Jung-Mee Hwang 7. Multiculturalism and the Extreme Right Challenge in Contemporary Britain; Nigel Copsey 8. Nondiscrimination, Diversity and Islam: Challenges for Multiculturalism in France; Alexandra Poli 9. Acculturation of Turkish Muslims as a Challenge to Social Integration in Germany; Haci Halil Uslucan 10. Acts of Citizenship against Neoliberalism: The New Cycle of Migrant Struggles in Italy; Federico Oliveri 11. Multiculturalism and Dimensions of Identification in Eastern Europe: A Failed Policy or Inescapable Reality?; Maria Stoicheva 12. A Shared European Citizenship in a Multinational and Multicultural Environment; Frank Delmartino