The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain (PDF)

HARRY GOULBOURNE is Professor of Sociology at South Bank University, UK. As well as being a frequent commentator in the media, he is the author of major recent studies such as Race Relations in Britain since 1945 and editor of Race and Ethnicity . RIVA KASTORYANO is Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France, and trained as an economist as well as a sociologist. She taught at Harvard before taking up her post in Paris. Her major publications include (ed.) Les codes de la différence and Negotiating Identities. States and Immigrants in France and Germany . NADIA KIWAN possesses both a British PhD and a French doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, France. She is currently lecturing at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and is the author of a major forthcoming study entitled Identities, Discourses and Experiences: Young People of North African Origin in France . She has also contributed to a number of edited works on race, identity and citizenship. VINCENT LATOUR is Maître de conférences at the Université de Toulouse, France, and a member of a CNRS team researching issues of identity in Europe. He is the author of Les relations raciales en Grande-Bretagne: le cas de la communauté indo-pakistanaise de Bristol and has written a number of articles on race and identity in popular journals such as Alternatives Internationales . MAX SILVERMAN is Professor of modern French studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of the seminal work, Deconstructing the Nation: Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in Modern France . His other books reflect his interest in the intellectual culture of France and include, Facing Postmodernity: Contemporary French Thought on Culture and Society . PNINA WERBNER is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Keele, UK, and an expert in migrations, community formation and the role of women. Her recent books include: The Migration Process ; Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims ; and Pilgrims of Love: the