A new book examined the challenges that diversity posed for European democracies, and how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups who felt that their values or beliefs were not treated fairly by the law.
Source: Gideon Calder and Emanuela Ceva (eds.), Diversity in Europe: Dilemmas of differential treatment in theory and practice, Routledge
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Date: 2010-Dec
An article used intersectionality as an analytical tool to explore struggles for 'institutional space' in policy processes in the United Kingdom and France. Institutional actors severely curtailed the space available to minority-ethnic groups to make complex and intersectional social justice claims. Even though France and the UK were often portrayed as opposites with regard to constructions of citizenship, these seemingly differing traditions of citizenship ended up having a similar effect of 'misrecognizing' the experiences and demands of minority-ethnic women and men.
Source: Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu, 'Struggles for institutional space in France and the United Kingdom: intersectionality and the politics of policy', Politics and Gender, Volume 6 Issue 4
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Dec
