Ethnicity, Immigration and Social Policy
Ethnicity, Immigration and Social Policy
This course examines how ethnic diversity is constructed, politicized, and governed in contemporary societies. Students explore theories of ethnic boundary‑making, polarization and conflict, before turning to global models of diversity management, immigration policy, and the socio‑economic outcomes of ethnic minority groups. Through comparative cases and policy‑focused analysis, the course equips students with the conceptual and empirical tools to assess how institutions, norms, and power relations shape integration, labour‑market trajectories, and interethnic cooperation.
Hasmath, R. (2011) “The Complexities of Ethnic Diversity”, in R. Hasmath (ed.) Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge).
Wimmer, A. (2008) “Elementary Strategies of Ethnic Boundary Making”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(6): 1025‐1055.
Hasmath, R. (2021) “Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Transnational Ethno-Racial Privilege”, Paper Presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 6-10.
Hasmath, R. (2024) “The Operations of Contemporary Han Chinese Privilege”, China Information 38(1): 3-23. [audio paper: video and podcast]
Marx, A. (1996) “Race‐Making and the Nation‐State”, World Politics 48(2): 180‐208.
Posner, D. (2004) “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi”, American Political Science Review 98(4): 529‐545.
Varshney, A. (2003) “Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Rationality”, Perspectives on Politics 1(1): 85‐99.
Hasmath, R. (2019) “What Explains the Rise of Majority-Minority Tensions and Conflict in Xinjiang?”, Central Asian Survey 38(1): 46-60. [audio paper: video and podcast] [public talk: video and podcast]
Tang, S. (2015) “The Onset of Ethnic War: A General Theory”, Sociological Theory 33(3): 256-279.
Sambanis, N. (2001) “Do Ethnic and Non‐Ethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 45(4): 259‐282.
Kuhn, P.M. and Weidmann, N.B. (2015) “Unequal We Fight: Between- and Within-Group Inequality and Ethnic Civil War”, Political Science Research and Methods 3(3): 543-568.
Kaufmann, C. (1996) “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars”, International Security 20(4): 136‐175.
Colombo, E. (2015) “Multiculturalisms: An Overview of Multicultural Debates in Western Societies”, Current Sociology Review 63(6): 800-824.
Kymlicka, W. (2015) “Solidarity in Diverse Societies: Beyond Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Welfare Chauvinism”, Comparative Migration Studies 3(1): 1-19.
Lenard, P.T. (2011) “Can Multiculturalism Build Trust?”, in R. Hasmath (ed.) Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge).
Robinson, A.M. (2011) “More than A Marketing Strategy: Multiculturalism and Meaningful Life”, in R. Hasmath (ed.) Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge).
Dupont, P.L., Sealy, T. and Modood, T. (2023) “The Relation Between Multiculturalism, Interculturalism and Cosmopolitanism in UK Diversity Politics”, Identities 30(6): 785-804.
Fait, S. (2011) “A Gemütlich Segregation: Multiculturalism and the Iceman’s Curse in Italy”, in R. Hasmath (ed.) Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge).
Yue, M-B. (2011) “Whereto for Multiculturalism? The German Debate on Leitkultur and the Promise of Cultural Studies”, in R. Hasmath (ed.) Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge).
Nowicka, M. (2024) Is it Antislavic Racism, or How to Speak About Liminality, Stigma, and Racism in Europe? Sociology Compass 18(2): e13190.
Lian, K.F. and Ganapathy, N. (2016) “The Politics of Racialization and Malay Identity”, in K.F. Lian (ed.) Multiculturalism, Migration, and the Politics of Identity in Singapore. New York: Springer.
Nicolacopoulos, T. and Vassilacopoulos, G. (2011) “Australian Multiculturalism: Beyond Management Models”, in R. Hasmath (ed.) Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge).
Mahajan, G. (2007) “Multiculturalism in the Age of Terror: Confronting the Challenges”, Political Studies Review 5(3): 317-336.
Hasmath, R. (2022) “Future Responses to Managing Muslim Ethnic Minorities in China: Lessons Learned from Global Approaches to Improving Inter-Ethnic Relations”, International Journal 77(1): 51-67. [audio paper: video and podcast]
Hasmath, R. (2012) The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge), Chapters One and Two. [public talk: podcast]
McKenzie, J. and Hasmath, R. (2013) “Deterring the ‘Boat People’: Explaining the Australian Government's People Swap Response to Asylum Seekers”, Australian Journal of Political Science 48(4): 417-430. [audio paper: video and podcast]
Bhuyan, R., Jeyapal, D., Ku, J., Sakamoto, I. and Chou, E. (2017) “Branding ‘Canadian Experience’ in Immigration Policy: Nation Building in a Neoliberal Era”, Journal of International Migration and Integration 18: 47-62.
Hasmath, R. (2012) The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge), Chapter Three.
Light, I. Sabagh, G., Bozorgmehr, M. and C. Der-Martirosian (1994) “Beyond the Ethnic Enclave Economy”, Social Problems 41(1): 65-80.
Warman, C., Sweetman, A. and Goldmann, G. (2015) “The Portability of New Immigrants’ Human Capital: Language, Education, and Occupational Skills”, Canadian Public Policy 41: S64-S79.
Modood, T. and Khattab, N. (2016) “Explaining Ethnic Differences: Can Ethnic Minority Strategies Reduce the Effects of Ethnic Penalties?”, Sociology 50(2): 231-246.
Hasmath, R. (2012) The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge), Chapter Four and Five.
Arrow, K.J. (1998) “What Has Economics to Say about Racial Discrimination?”, The Journal of Economic Perspectives 12(2): 91-100.
MacDonald, A. and Hasmath, R. (2019) “Outsider Ethnic Minorities and Wage Determination in China”, International Labour Review 158(3): 489-508.
Fearon, J.D. and Laitin, D. (1996) “Explaining Interethnic Cooperation”, American Political Science Review 90(4): 715‐35.
Paluck, E.L. and Green, D.P. (2009) “Prejudice Reduction: What Works? A Review and Assessment of Research and Practice”, Annual Review of Psychology 60: 339‐367.
Hale, H. (2004) “Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethno‐Federal State Survival and Collapse”, World Politics 56(2): 165‐193.
Hasmath, R., Ho. B. and Kay-Reid, S. (2024) “State Apologies and the Rehumanization of Refugees, Indigenous and Ethnic Minority Groups”, in Y. Abu-Laban, M. Frishkopf, R. Hasmath and A. Kirova (eds.) Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press. [public talk: video and podcast]
Hasmath, R. (2012) The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge), Chapter Six.