Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series) - Hardcover

Garbaye, Romain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405126973 ISBN 13: 9781405126977

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

This book presents a comparison of the patterns of ethnic minority politics in British and French city politics.

• A comparison of the participation of ethnic minorities in British and French cities
• Includes direct comparisons of particular cities Birmingham, Lille and Roubaix
• Shows how ethnic and cultural diversity translates into political conflict in different political systems
• Considers styles of political mobilisation of ethnic minorities in the context of urban political systems, as well as the strategies used by party leaders and to manage ethnic diversity in political competition
• Analyses how ethnic and cultural diversity in urban societies translates into conflictual politics
• Enhances our understanding of local politics and of the evolution of political representation in industrialised democracies

About this title

Book Description:

This study presents a comparison of the politics of ethnic minorities in British and French cities, with a focus on the election of city councillors of Birmingham, Lille and Roubaix between 1980 and 2000. It shows that, while the Labour-run Birmingham City Council has co-opted a significant number of councillors of African-Caribbean and Asian background, the population of North African origins in Lille has obtained little or no representation. Roubaix represents an intermediate case, with the number of ethnic minority councillors increasing through the 1990s. The book considers styles of political mobilisation of ethnic minorities in the context of urban political systems, as well as the strategies used by party leaders and to manage ethnic diversity in political competition. It analyses how ethnic and cultural diversity in urban societies translates into conflictual politics.

About the Author:

Romain Garbaye is Maître de Conférences at the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. He obtained his DPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford, and he has held a Jean Monnet post-doctoral fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. He has published several journal articles and book chapters on the politics of ethnic minorities in European cities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405126973
• ISBN 13: 9781405126977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288