Books on ethnicity
Leman, J. ed. (1998, 2nd ed. 2000). The Dynamics of Emerging Ethnicites. Immigrant and indigenous ethnogenesis in confrontation. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang, 179 p.
Abstract: Ethnicity is the subject of this collection of studies. The first question is whether or not, in an era criss-crossed with processes of transnational migrations, increasingly common migration-linked ethnicities differ essentially from traditional indigenous ones. Secondly, at a time when secularisation is a key feature of the globalisation and upscaling that have become paradigms for efficiënt future management, to what extent are countermovements generally sparked off, sustained and advanced by religious (and to a lesser extent linguistic) emblems and structures. These questions are dealt with by means of a series of field studies among mediterranean immigrants, Chinese and Christian Turkish refugees. The findings are compared with indigenous ethogenesis in Transsylvania and in Spain, focussing on past Christian-muslim relations and confrontations in these areas.